Profiles
Writing for the Sunday Inquirer in 1988, the late and great scholar and culinary adventurer Doreen Fernandez noted how Filipino cuisine is people-centered, revolving around those who create, process, and consume it, highlighting how the communal spirit of the fiesta lives on even in urban life. In that same essay, Fernandez also observed how the cuisine is multicultural at its
Lookbook
Move over, Paris and Milan. The fashion world’s center of gravity has been shifting east for a while now, and from October 20 to 24, it’s the Philippines’ turn in the spotlight. The country is hosting the inaugural Fashion Week Asia at the Newport World Resorts. Presented by AGC Power Holdings Corp. and backed by The Business of Fashion (BoF)
Taste
For the longest time, culinary schools in the Philippines taught students the techniques of French cooking. This, according to Chef Francis Lacson, was the gold standard, noting the mores of his early days in the culinary world. It’s vastly different today in 2026, where some Filipino food items – the viral ube and sisig – have reached the global ubiquity
Travel
Think Responsibly is making space for learning and conversation in places where Manila already comes together. A bar can be full of people and still feel like a collection of separate circles. Friends arrive together, catch up over drinks, and leave together. Meeting someone new is possible, but it often takes more than being in the same room. Think Responsibly
Weddings
On September 8, Santuario de San Jose in Mandaluyong City became the setting for one of the most meaningful days in the lives of Congressman Brian Poe Llamanzares and Department of Justice (DOJ) Undersecretary Atty. Margarita “Marge” Gutierrez. Surrounded by family, friends, and the people closest to them, Brian and Marge stood before the altar and made a promise for
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Why the things we can touch, keep and return to suddenly feel more valuable A printed photograph behaves differently from a photograph on a phone. It can be bent, tucked into a wallet, forgotten inside a book, then found again years later. By then, the image carries more than what was originally captured. It holds the time that passed around
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