14 easy strategies to integrate moderate activity into your life - 1 Join some sporting event like fitness walks in your neighborhood. It's also a good time to meet your neighbor. 2 Close your office door for 10 or 15 »

14 Tips to Get Your Relationship Cooking - The most reliable barometer these days for reading the intensity of a romantic relationship is how well the two of you can get the sparks flying in one »

A Career Rooted in Childhood - Learn Nippongo in Paris? Chef Chris Cabili Bautista did. He learned Japanese from his Nippon classmates at the Ecole Ritz-Escoffier while earning his Diploma in the »

A Chicken in Hiding - While scanning through the pages of the Chicken for Every Occasion Cookbook by Helen Studley, I thought I spotted a typographical error. The recipe was originally entitled »

A Delightful Day in Thailand - Yet another food festival was "A Delightful Day in Thailand," held at Alabang's Festival Mall. During the three-day fair, various Thai restaurants put up stalls serving popular »

A Lawyer and His Chops - I 'm a lawyer with two kids. I really love to cook (cooking is my first love actually). I've tried so many recipes but the last one I »

A Nameless Delight - This is one of the recipes I tried inventing using all those opened bottled sauces stocked in our refrigerator. This is quite an invention because every time we »

Bangkok's Best of Both Worlds - In this City of Angels, you can learn to cook Thai cuisine, or just sit back and enjoy some excellent Italian appetizers. For a moment there, it seemed as »

Batangas Goes Mediterranean - To wake up at six o' clock on a Saturday morning is not my idea of fun. I'm usually grumpy at that time, complaining about lack of sleep »

Creamy, Rich and Cheesy - For pasta, three out of four times, I prefer white sauce to red. I love the velvety creaminess of it, if only it weren't so fattening! I've encountered »

Davao Comes to Ayala - During the Davao food fiesta held at the Café Jeepney of InterContinental Manila hotel, all conversation naturally focused on the wonders of that very upbeat province in the »

Delights at the End of the Tunnel - Every month I can just melt with relief after we put to bed an issue of FOOD Magazine. That's the only time my editor and I can goof »

Dining in Three Movements - Classic tempura, teriyaki, and teppanyaki will always have the honored places they've occupied in Japanese dining for hundreds of years. But when a new kid on the restaurant »

Don't Chill That Watermelon - Those who like their watermelon ice-cold aren't going to like what scientists of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have found out that ice-cold watermelon is less nutritious than »

Don't Let Food Poisoning Happen to You - The author of this piece is lucky to have survived the food poisoning accident and even more blessed that her kids didn't eat the poisonous corned beef. What is »

Express Your Love with this French Dessert - Chocolate in all its glorious forms contains phenylalenine, a very potent substance that's responsible for giving us the "feel good" state of mind. Anything and everything chocolate »

Feasting on the Harvests of a Farm - Flowers, herbs, and vegetables keep the Tancos' guests happy and well-fed When Bizu patisserie founder and general manager Annie Tanco is asked for tips on entertaining, she obliges. »

Forever Food - When your work revolves around food, most likely the rest of your life does, too. For better or for worse, food insinuates itself into your every waking »

Goma started out at McDo's - His very first job after graduating from high school, says celebrity star and TV host Richard Gomez, was as a crew member at McDonald's Makati branch. At the »

Have Baby, Will Eat - My definition of a life well lived is eating well. There have been times when I've had two lunches because the first one didn't work out. Now, having »

How to Make Apple Crisp - In these days of rich, multi-layered cakes and sophisticated chocolate desserts, it's hard to imagine a time when desserts as simple as the apple crisp were considered as »

I Took My Kid to a Restaurant And Lived to Tell the Tale - Ever since I became a mother, my experience of dining out can be described in three words: soggy French fries. And usually, they're leftover fries, the ones my »

It's home-cooked, but nicer - It's easy to find Filipino restaurants in a city like Manila, where the craving for Filipino food goes beyond the everyday meals served at home. However, when »

Macau: east of Portugal, south of China - It speaks much of what Macau was in the past that its World Heritage sites include both temples and churches, fortresses and squares, barracks and mansions. It »

Morcon makeover - Morcon has always been a good choice for special occasions. It looks impressive, tastes great and is easy to make-qualities that you rarely find together in one »

New Soy Sauce Products - Lee Kum Kee and its distributor Sysu International recently launched two new products in the Philippine market: Lee Kum Kee Soy Sauce and Lee Kum Kee Premium »

Pick a Flavor from a Pot - Call it urban renewal. That part of you that finally decides to make peace with living in the city -- hurried pace and all -- and to do »

Quick Solutions to Problematic Frostings - Problem 1: Whipped cream did not double in volume Cause: Whipped cream was not chilled properly. Whipped cream must be very cold and solid before whipping. Keep »

Sabor de Barcelona - Another noteworthy food event was the recent Sabor de Barcelona, a food festival celebrating the flavors of Catalan cooking. Held at InterContinental Manila, the festival also served »

Sandara Park: Spice Girl - Sandara Park, or Sandy/Krung-Krung as she is fondly called, is back with a vengeance. It was in 2004 when she first won the hearts of Filipinos during »

Seafood Haven - A fabulous addition to the new menu of Crustasia Crab and Seafood restaurant is a dish that you might say is the more subdued, more elegant cousin of »

Something Special from a Cookbook:It was a new dish - and everyone loved it. - My mom once asked me to cook 'something special' for a one-time gathering with her friends. At that time, I had just received a Chinese cookbook as a »

Summer Fruit Sensations at Bizu - Bizu now offers bottomless fruit shakes in refreshing watermelon, cantaloupe, mango, and dalandan flavors. The drinks at P185 per order are refillable. For light summer treats, Bizu offers »

They Did It First - If today's cooks and homemakers have an easy time in their kitchens, they can thank the creative minds who, years ago, invented devices and appliances to make cooking »

Welcome the new year with this rice dish - It's important to have a rice dish on the table to usher in the New Year. This is a tradition in our family that has never been »

Young and Hip Fine Dining - Executive chef Christopher Romine of Makati Shangri-La has lightened up the fine-dining label of its flagship restaurant Red, by going more 'hip' with its new Californian-Asian style of »