trade-off

Finally, a French chef! This trying-hard cook is going to meet an authentic chef from the land where snails are served as escargot and where women apparently don’t get fat.
Last week, I reserved a seat for the 1-hour patisserie demo sponsored by one of the high-end culinary schools in the Philippines. For days, in the [...]

Tres(ses NOT) Bien*

My favorite salon across the office deserved another visit from me last week. As a bonus, our Dutch visitor Jelle(who we are spoiling to death with out-of-town trips) and two girl friends, Gladys and Analyn (whose primary function that night was to offer moral support) tagged along.
When we got there, Olay (not his real [...]