In this forum, our top chefs come together to honor Margarita Forés, a culinary icon whose influence transcended kitchens and generations. This is a testament to the indelible mark she left on Philippine gastronomy, a legacy of bold flavors, boundless creativity, and an unwavering...
I’m usually very conscious of my deadlines when I write but only because I want time to read what I write over and over, sometimes aloud, and to change it here, there, everywhere I can make it sound better. Mostly, I only change for rhythm, what sounds good to my ears. I have no idea...
The rise of the terno, or rather, its restoration to our collective consciousness, has been nothing short of a cultural awakening. At the heart of this movement is the Ternocon, the annual convention and competition that Ben Chan initiated with the Cultural Center of the...
A HIDDEN GEM Maison Jewelmer is at the penthouse on the 55th floor of the Alveo Financial Tower in Makati City I’ve always maintained that Manila is an insider’s city, and here’s a new space, as private as the inside of a jewelry box, as snug and sheltering as the gleaming nacre-lined...
Odette Pumaren wears many hats. She’s one you’d like to run into at parties because she is always oozing with energy and style. One glance, whether she is a friend or not, and you know she’s fun. She’s also a girl boss, VP at Luminax, a company involved in design and construction,...
Images IAN SANTOS Does James Bond really like his martini shaken, not stirred? Maybe if he prefers his martini cloudy, aerated, and diluted. Traditionalists like their martini, a mix of gin and vermouth in its simplest, truest form, stirred for 45 seconds. Kyle Ley There...
Time, to Philippine Airlines president and pilot Stanley Ng, is precious. Yet he gives it freely, or as generously as he could, given that, like his idols Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, like Jesus Christ himself, he only has 24 hours a day. That’s why, if he could, Stanley, the youngest...
FULL HOUSE Guests enjoying the launch party of Project Vino Reserve A wine forecast made in 2022, when Filipinos drank as much as 25.4 million liters of wine, projected an increase of up to 33 million liters in wine consumption in the Philippines by 2027. Daniel Obradó, Katie Stuntz,...
A TRUE VISIONARY DexCom vice president for international business operations Jessica Leigh Shields Australian by blood, Filipino by choice, Jessica Leigh Shields has called Manila her home since a financial institution sent her to the Philippines at 23 on a 12-month-long assignment 14 years ago....
LADIES TAKING CHARGE Museo Pambata vice president Sofia Zobel Elizalde, Museo Pambata founder Nina Lim-Yuson, and Museo Pambata president Bambi Mañosa-Tanjutco When I heard Natasha Tanjutco who, along with her sister Bella Tanjutco, daughters of Museo Pambata president Bambi...
Personally, I dream of a country, where dreams are possible. It’s not such an impossible dream, except that dreams-come-true among us Filipinos remain exceptional, not quite common. What I’d like to see in 2025 is more opportunities for Filipinos to seek a life that makes the most of...
Christmas to me is riding a bike around the CCP complex when it was quieter and most of the streets were off limits to motorists. I would bike as fast as I could, challenging gravity, while singing “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” faster and faster until I could go no faster on the bike, let alone...
