Lechon Eyeball – Updated Guest List and Directions
10 Nov, 2008
Here is the latest guest list for the Cebu Lechon/Inasal Eyeball on Saturday, November 15, 2008 — everyone on this list has confirmed their attendance:
10 Nov, 2008
Here is the latest guest list for the Cebu Lechon/Inasal Eyeball on Saturday, November 15, 2008 — everyone on this list has confirmed their attendance:
09 Nov, 2008
A day before I flew to Cebu to roast pigs with another television show host, I had the wonderful opportunity to spend the morning and a late afternoon with Bobby Chinn, the host of World Cafe Asia which shows locally on the Discovery Travel & Living Channel. Who would have guessed that in…
08 Nov, 2008
I received this email today that made me both so incredibly sad and so humbled by the “reach” of the internet. I would normally answer such an email privately, but something about this particular email made me want to publish it verbatim, with the exception of the full name of the sender and…
06 Nov, 2008
For some reason, out of 52 weeks of a normal year, I was asked to play local host to TWO television food show hosts quite literally, back to back. The day BEFORE I left for Cebu to roast pigs for Anthony Bourdain, I took Bobby Chinn of World Cafe Asia on a tour…
05 Nov, 2008
The Marketmanila Lechon/Inasal Eyeball in Cebu is just 10 days away! Here is the final guest list. Please note that a couple of you who were on the top of a “waitlist” can now squeeze in if it isn’t too late for you to make reservations on planes or ferries or buses…
04 Nov, 2008
The year was 1984. I was a sophomore in college. The song was “Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?” and it raised millions and millions of dollars for the starving in Africa. Organized by Bob Geldof and sung with, among others, Sting, Boy George, Bono, Simon Le Bon, Tony Hadley,…
02 Nov, 2008
I was up before the crack of dawn, deeply concerned about the weather. The day before it had poured buckets, and lechon skin does NOT take kindly to rainy weather, in my experience. From the 21st floor of our hotel, I snapped this spectacular photo of the sun rising, and I instinctively…
01 Nov, 2008
Pulling off any meal successfully, whether big or small, boils down to the planning, preparation and execution… down to the last detail. Event planners, must be, by nature, obsessively compulsive type-A individuals that are, at the core, insecure and unsatisfied unless they fret over every single little thing, again and again. But…