It’s official. Madrid Fusion Manila has been cancelled, as confirmed by Tourism and Promotions Board COO Cesar Montano. With all the speculations, I decided to just up and get a confirmation from Montano himself. My story in today’s column in the Inquirer here: http://business.inquirer.net/248412/madrid-fusion-manila-no In its place will be a project called Buhay Carinderia by…
Mission: Manila, a passion project of mine to promote Filipino chefs, is back, this time featuring Chef Myke Tatung Sarthou. Chef Tatung, as he is fondly called, is chef-owner of Restaurant Agos in Mall of Asia, a bestselling cookbook author on Filipino food, and the resident chef of the morning show Umagang Kay Ganda. I…
It all began out of a desire to make World’s 50 Best No. 1 Chef Joan Roca and the other speaker-chefs at Madrid Fusion Manila experience a real Filipino dinner because there was no Filipino chef lined up in the parallel dinners to the Madrid Fusion Manila congress. Roca flew out on the last day…
The World’s No. 1 Chef, Latin America’s No. 1 and two Asia’s No. 1 ALL coming to Manila for Madrid Fusion Manila 2016!!! Madrid Fusion Manila 2016 is all set with this Memorandum of Understanding signed just this morning between the Philippine Department of Tourism (in photo is Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr.) and the…
Eight of Spain’s best chefs are coming to Manila April 24 to 26 for Madrid Fusion Manila – or, as Elena Arzak calls it – Manila Fusion. But only one of them really specializes in desserts: Paco Torreblanca. Check out his creations as seen in his website (torreblanca.net): Here is a description of Chef Paco…
Restaurant Arzak. San Sebastian, Spain. The World’s Best Female Chef* Elena Arzak has personally confirmed that she will be coming to Manila this April for Madrid Fusion Manila. *Elena Arzak, in tandem with her father Juan Mari Arzak, pioneer of Modern Basque Cuisine, is the head chef at Arzak, a fourth generation restaurant housed in…
There are many chefs the world over who now do “modern cuisine”. A couple of years ago, I was blown away by the creations of Heston Blumenthal at Dinner by Heston at the Mandarin Hyde Park in London. As an appetizer he served something that looked like an orange but was in fact foie gras.…
As published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 11, 2015. “We never thought this would happen in our lifetime,” Chef Myrna Segismundo said, sharing the news that she and Chef Margarita Fores will be cooking at Madrid Fusion in Spain this February. Madrid Fusion-International Gastronomic Summit is one of the most prestigious gatherings of chefs…
