Category Archives: Food & Wine

Afternoon Tea on the Quay

Posted on 10 June 2013 by sheg4184

Anyone for scones? Yes, I do realize it is starting to look as my life is nothing but clotted cream and champagne, but there you are, that’s just the way it goes… for some! This tea was for a very … Continue reading →

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“The Grounds” in Rural Alexandria

Posted on 30 May 2013 by sheg4184

I hit ‘The Grounds’ running, straight off the plane from Manila, and was astounded, in my jet-lagged stupour, to discover this rustic café located in semi-industrial Alexandria, only minutes from the airport, the site startlingly at odds with its surroundings. … Continue reading →

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Farewell Tea

Posted on 26 May 2013 by sheg4184

The bane of expat life is the constant ebb and flow of friends. Every year, about this time, I start deleting names from my cellphone, as a clutch of my old mates disperse to new postings, and the talk revolves … Continue reading →

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La Cocina de Tita Moning: Stepping Back in Time

Posted on 11 May 2013 by sheg4184

In the San Miguel District of Manila, once Manila’s most elegant district,  and just around the corner from Malacanang Palace, Lory Vi Valdes had a childhood brimming with family, where aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents lived in a row of … Continue reading →

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“How’s the serenity?”

Posted on 20 April 2013 by sheg4184

‘I tune into the wind and to the sea and I begin to breathe more easily…’ The wind-ruffled water laps against the pylons, the thatch rustles, the coloured flags slaps the flag poles as I sit on the deck of … Continue reading →

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Grace Park: Just Around the Corner

Posted on 16 April 2013 by sheg4184

Margarita (Gaita) Forés has joined the organic craze, opening Grace Park just last month at One Rockwell, a tiny paddock-to-plate restaurant with an Italian flavour. It is named after her grandmother’s home in Caloocan, apparently the inspiration for her farmhouse … Continue reading →

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Ethical Entrepreneurs

Posted on 10 April 2013 by sheg4184

 ‘Eating is, or should be, one of life’s great pleasures,’ says food writer Angela Crocombe.  Filipinos agree. In the Philippines, eating is a communal, convivial pastime. In the provinces, regional cuisines have been influenced by hundreds of years of Chinese, … Continue reading →

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A Heated Moment

Posted on 5 April 2013 by sheg4184

Have you ever seen one of these? They come in a variety of colours, the most common of which are orange and red, but yellow and purple, pink, white and brown [chocolate!] are also available.  Sitting innocently on the supermarket … Continue reading →

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Snow & Ice in Manila…

Posted on 1 April 2013 by sheg4184

The temperature is rising in Manila as summer looms, but in the newly renovated New World Hotel in Makati it was snowing in March! The annual Ball is ANZA’s largest event, and this year it had a new location. No … Continue reading →

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A Not-So Gracious Tea

Posted on 24 March 2013 by sheg4184

“Its orient tinge, like spring-time morn, Or baby-buttercups newly-born; Its balmy perfume, delicate pulp, One longs to swallow it all at a gulp, Sure man had ne’er such gifts or theme As your melt-in-mouthy Devonshire cream.” An eulogy on a … Continue reading →

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