Christmas Eve Setting…
26 Jan, 2012
Most of our holiday entertaining with family and friends occurs in the run up to Christmas, for 2-3 crazy, busy weeks where we have dinners, lunches, staff parties, etc.
26 Jan, 2012
Most of our holiday entertaining with family and friends occurs in the run up to Christmas, for 2-3 crazy, busy weeks where we have dinners, lunches, staff parties, etc.
30 Dec, 2011
I am not kidding when I say this is a beautiful, but highly restrained, or should I say, toned down version of a typical dessert spread at Sister’s over the yuletide holidays.
24 Oct, 2011
Call it a celebration of the “Fall” harvest. An annual re-enactment of New England pilgrims’ feast. The starting gun on holiday entertaining. A reason to get friends together. Or a meal to give thanks for all the graces of the year so far.
19 Oct, 2011
Puentespina Orchids & Tropical Plants, Inc. That’s the only name you need to remember this Halloween. The holidays are looming like the first wave of a massive tsunami.
24 Apr, 2011
We left the beach just as the maddening crowds were arriving. A quiet Easter holiday in what appears to be deserted Manila (no traffic at all!) is much more appealing than one might think. On Saturday morning, I sent our in-house “florist” Leny, to Dimasalang with a short list and a fixed…
08 Apr, 2011
I was at the FTI Taguig market last Saturday and noticed a stall with second hand ceramics apparently sourced in Japan from hand-me-downs, thrift shop purchases or frankly someone else’s discarded household items (garbage) that had been packed and shipped here to be resold. I figured these items must have arrived well before…
19 Mar, 2011
Good friends and serious foodies (and wine specialists, literally) were coming to dinner in Cebu. They had flown in from Manila, had guests from Hong Kong in tow, plus another visiting American couple (she a food, wine and travel writer and he a photographer) were joining us as well. All in all,…
02 Nov, 2010
It’s been a long while since I have featured single-use implements or ceramics for the dinner table. On a recent visit to sister’s apartment, I spied two unusual plates which she must have acquired on a trip to Paris earlier in the Fall. Up top, a plate for baked scallops or …