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A Tuesday at Ciçou

By Claude Tayag | February 5, 2009 - 12:00am

Tuesdays are sacrosanct to my darleng Mary Anne. It is her day reserved for her lunch date with our son Nico who’s studying in Manila.

Food and Leisure

Ain’t no high and lo’ no more in Boracay

By Claude Tayag | November 15, 2007 - 12:00am

Every time my Darleng walks on Boracay sand, she gushes that God must love Filipinos so much He gave us the best beach in the world. I have collected sand from all the beaches I’ve visited here and abroad —...

Food and Leisure

It’s a small world after all

By TURO-TURO By Claude Tayag | April 26, 2007 - 12:00am

One hot afternoon, I couldn’t stay indoors due to the oppressive heat since we don’t have air condi-tioning...

Food and Leisure

Make ours Italian

By TURO-TURO By Claude Tayag | November 9, 2006 - 12:00am

Darleng and I have been doing food reviews together for the past seven years – or is has it been. Without fail, we come home full and bursting at the waist. At times, we are even tipsy. We always walk...

Food and Leisure

Wining, dining, Darleng

By TURO-TURO By Claude Tayag | September 21, 2006 - 12:00am

I am often asked why I am always with my Darleng. Is it me who tags along with her on her lakad or the other way around?

Food and Leisure

Manila loves the Peninsula Bangkok’s chef Sumalee

By TURO-TURO By Claude Tayag | May 4, 2006 - 12:00am

I met this beautiful chinky-eyed Thai lady chef in one of our trips to Bangkok. For three years now, I enjoy a sametime, next-year love affair with her – food affair is more like it. And my Darleng doesn’t...

Food and Leisure

One fine dinner

By TURO-TURO By Claude Tayag | March 9, 2006 - 12:00am

It was not just a fine dinner, but a very fine evening, too. It started with fine weather, with the cool January breeze greeting us as we got off the car. We then stepped into a very fine house somewhere in Ayala...

Food and Leisure

‘Makaon ta’

By TURO-TURO By Claude Tayag | November 24, 2005 - 12:00am

People in Manila who have no time to go to the province or have no province to trace their roots to will have to contend themselves with what my wife Mary Ann often calls mestizo (hilaw or half-cooked) food. Even...

Food and Leisure

Which came first: the wine or the food?

By TURO-TURO By Claude Tayag | September 29, 2005 - 12:00am

It was a grand wine-pairing dinner held recently at the ballroom of New World Hotel. Mary Ann and I joined a table of food writers. They were already on their second wine, not counting the cocktails that we missed....

Food and Leisure