A look back at my mother’s “bizarre” culinary adventures that could out-foodie any self-described foodie
Hidden Madrid: Escaped bulls, headless priests and bartending pachyderms?
Author Mark Besas talks about the strange but true stories in his bestselling book, “Hidden Madrid”
The “Influencer”, the Influenced. My random encounter with one of these globetrotting online sybarites
A night out in Madrid leads to a chance encounter with one of dem “Travel Influencers”
Chic vs Cutre-licious. When they go high, we go low (because sometimes that’s where the real flavour is)
Running the opposite direction from Madrid’s gastrobars offering fusion food, I take a mini tapas tour with bestselling author of “Hidden Madrid”, Mark Besas. Snails anyone?
A magic carpet, a moveable feast. My dinner with a Syrian refugee family (and a reflection on generosity).
I sat down for dinner with a refugee family in Madrid and learned how to cook a traditional leafy dish.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your Instagram photo of chopsticks stabbed on rice means we’re all going to die.
Not all Asians use chopsticks, young grasshopper. But if you’re going to post photos of rice bowls with chopsticks, at least style it right!
A fab Lamb Adobo recipe. (Which I actually cook on special days)
“Excite your friends and baffle your enemies” was the small note attached to this recipe when I first got it from one of my best friends years ago, when I had just moved to Madrid and was really jonesing for Filipino food. This is a twist to the traditional adobo recipe, whose secret lies in…
A meditation on Foodhism. Chef Table Season 3’s enlightening story of monk-chef Jeong Kwan
Forget Netflix and Chill, I was in the middle of a Netflix and Cry session just as my boyfriend walked in on me. “You ok? What are you watching?” he asked. Wiping my tear-streaked cheeks and tearing a hole through my Kleenex, I replied, “Chef’s Table, Season 3!” *Sniff* Indeed, David Gelb, the creator of that…
Thanks Esquire! My Chefugee article published today
Read it here while the digital ink’s still wet! (P.S. Good to know that my former journo colleagues – “The Writers Bloc” as we called us Gen-Xers – have now all moved up as editors in big publications. 🙂 )
A Syrian, a Swede, a Lebanese and a Filipina walk into a grocery store…
T minus 3 days and counting to the Chefugee Syria dinner, I found myself whisked on a magic carpet ride to a wonderful and exotic land I had never been to before… the Carniceria de Amana Food halal supermarket near metro El Carmen. And who better to give us a tour of this Syrian grocery…
Kusina Madrid 