Drool-worthy Italian food hiding in plain sight. A day devoted to errands and depriving me of sustenance has me ravenous by evening. Life has its way with the restaurant I originally have my sights o...
Title caught your eye, didn’t it? This post is rated “XS” for Extra Sexy, the annual DCF Love Month sexy post. I’m distraught when I find out that chocolatier Benoit Nicolay has moved to Singapore. I...
Trust me, this is really a book review. And yes, I made this babka you see here from this book. I write this review with overwhelming bias. In the pantheon that is my library, bursting with 1,000+ bo...
Have a happy purple day! It’s a triumph when I finally make it to Subspace. I hear about it in early December and I mentally play out many machinations trying to fit it into my schedule. But I blame ...
This is my favorite milk tea place, but for other reasons than you might think. Manila is currently afloat in a bubble milk tea mania, and the options are mind-boggling. This is made evident to me in...
Imagine needing only four cake recipes to be able to bake any cake you want. This book makes that premise a reality. I interviewed Ginny Roces De Guzman for Fully Booked’s Zine a full year before she...
The sundae of my youth is still alive but smaller and has way too many bananas. As a kid growing up in Jakarta, Indonesia, my supreme happiness was found in a sundae, a Hot Fudge Sundae from Swensen’...
A photo reminds me of my ultimate porky pleasure.
“I’m unloading four months’ worth of absence on your table once you get here,” Nomama’s chef-owner tells me.
This book presents a most enthralling history lesson that changes the way I view chocolate. Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World’s Greatest Chocolate Makers is written by Debo...
We’re feasting on duck for the Dragon New Year. Lesley’s eager to get together for a Peking Duck dinner. “Let’s celebrate Chinese new year early!” She suggests excitedly. I love eating with my Chines...
This isn’t just a breaded pork chop. “I’m not really a fan of fried food,” Peachy Concepcion tells me. “You’re not?!” My eyes widen in disbelief. She chuckles at my reaction. “At least not until John...
The original title of this post is, “What I Eat When I Don’t Want To Eat (Too Much).” I’ve been avoiding food since January 1. I seriously went gangbusters with the Christmas ham and went beyond my f...
This is the third and final book in Alton Brown’s Good Eats trilogy and it doesn’t disappoint. If you’re at all familiar with TV host Alton Brown’s Good Eats, you’re aware of his verve and wild inven...
A holiday recipe inspired by Chef Ed Bugia and my favorite queso de bola. During the holidays, queso de bola (QdB) is one of those foods I can’t stop thinking about – or eat enough of. I’m constantly...
CONTEST CLOSED. Because I never get tired of saying thank you, here’s one last prize for one lucky DCF reader. Natz Mendoza is a graphic artist who got in touch with me not too long ago. She’s sellin...
Of course these foods aren’t limited to Christmas, but they seem even more delicious when eaten at this time of year. I ask several people what their favorite foods with queso de bola (QdB) are. The ...
This cookbook is for the dessert lover who sees nothing wrong with eating cookie dough out of the bowl and eating cereal just for the milk at the bottom. Pastry chef, Christina Tosi is no food snob. ...
These are the thinnest cookies I may ever eat. These cookies are so thin that they’re probably not even a millimeter thick. It’s an astounding fact made even more so when I realize that there are two...
Give a cookbook for Christmas to the food lovers on your gift list. These are my book picks for December, some titles that I’ve carefully chosen since it’s the season for gift-giving. Thi...
I’ve got three winners of the Royce’ Collection Brown and six more are getting something extra. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Dessert Comes First readers are the coolest people on the pl...
If you’ve ever wanted to know what the world’s best chef eats for dinner, this is it. The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adrià is touted as the “…first book of home-cooking recipes” by the cel...
I’ve got three of these boxes to give away to the three biggest fans of Dessert Comes First. Christmas is all about giving and I’ve always thought it’s great to be grateful. This blog of mine is a pe...
A recipe for a blog in 6 steps viewed in 6 minutes. This is the video currently being shown in all Fully Booked Stores as part of my stint as brand ambassador which began this month. The video is par...
This white diamond is a white truffle from Alba, Italy. Four years ago, I ate the Black Diamond, a black truffle, and today I’m eating its fairer counterpart, the white truffle. It’s from Piedmont in...
A surprisingly easy business book to breeze through, both for the MBA’er and the Starbucks fan. Howard Schultz had his work cut out for him when he returned as president and chairman of Starbuc...
It appears that Dessert Comes First is inspiring an ever-younger generation of food lovers. The Dessert Comes First Christmas Gift List Round-Up: Part 1 This little boy is Robin and he was zipping ar...
These are my stars, the AMAZING purveyors of the Dessert Comes First Christmas Gift List. Big smiles all around on Saturday, November 12, 2011. After three months of planning, 18 of my selected food ...
At Dessert Comes First, it’s about making sweet wishes come true. Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . My feature on John Sta. Cruz’s Cake Planet is one of this year’s most popul...
“My god Sau, I’ve just about given up on you,” I say. Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . Trying to nail down Chef Sau del Rosario is like shooting for the moon. He misses all the dea...
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