The Happy Home Cook: Canonigo (Floating Meringue)

The Happy Home Cook: Canonigo (Floating Meringue)

The caramel-coated canonigo, with its towering meringue, is beautiful and almost weightless when cut. Richly flavored by caramel and mustard sauce, it is the Spanish equivalent of the French Ile Flottante (“floating island”), a mound of light meringue floating in a vanilla custard sea.

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[PARTNER] We Need Museo Pambata

[PARTNER] We Need Museo Pambata

Museo Pambata, the first children's museum in the Philippines develops multi-sensory exhibits because this is how children (ages 2-12) learn best. Thus it's called a 'hands on' museum.

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Balay Sa Kabos: A House for My Neighbor

Balay Sa Kabos: A House for My Neighbor

How a rural community got together to start building houses for its poor.

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[PARTNER] Araw ng Kagitingan, the 74th Anniversary of the Fall of Bataan

[PARTNER] Araw ng Kagitingan, the 74th Anniversary of the Fall of Bataan

A commemoration and opening of exhibition on World War II in the Philippines. April 11, 2016. Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco.

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‘They’re Watching’ Could Get Hollywood Watching, Too

‘They’re Watching’ Could Get Hollywood Watching, Too

A Native American-Filipino American produced movie, “They’re Watching,” is the new ‘Paranormal Activity.’

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The Happy Home Cook: Paella de Adobo by Señor Anastacio de Alba

The Happy Home Cook: Paella de Adobo by Señor Anastacio de Alba

The Paella de Adobo is a rich rice dish of Spanish origin but made just for the Filipino. This comes from the recipes of Señor Anastacio de Alba who owned a famous Spanish restaurant in Manila.

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Limeuil

Limeuil

A famous woman artist uses words to do a portrait of her adopted hometown in France.

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The Stunning Isabel Preysler

The Stunning Isabel Preysler

Isabel Preysler, former wife of Julio Iglesias and a staple of Spanish society and gossip magazines, was already a stunner at grade school in the Philippines.

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Standing Room Only

Standing Room Only

Remembering without regret a time and place where life was exciting, and the unknowns of tomorrow were thrilling, not disheartening.

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The Happy Home Cook: Filipino Crab Cake Omelette

The Happy Home Cook: Filipino Crab Cake Omelette

Neither just crab cakes nor just crab omelettes, Filipino crab cake omelette or tortang alimasag is the best of both worlds plus more. Now, it can be veganized, too.

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