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CLAUDE TAYAG, The Philippine STAR

Claude Tayag has been an observant of Filipino cuisine for so long nobody seems to care. He is one writer who puts his money where his mouth is, having founded successfully Bale Dutung and 1956 Downtown Café in his hometown Angeles City, Pampanga.

Restaurants

‘Gintonic’ and a secret love

March 7, 2024

Recipes

There is no national Spanish cuisine

February 29, 2024

Recipes

More unique adobo recipes and a sour note from a Pampango gentleman

September 15, 2022

Recipes

Bencab’s grilled adobo and other unique versions

August 11, 2022

Food

Two poems, a song, and a tribute to the Pinoy adobo

July 28, 2022

Food

An adobo state of mind

July 7, 2022

Recipes

Adobo is where the hearth is

June 30, 2022

Recipes

Up close and personal Pinoy adobos

June 23, 2022

Food

On food tourism and gastro diplomacy

June 9, 2022

Food

The best adobo, really, is your mother’s

June 2, 2022

Recipes

The biggest little Filipino cookbook of Pura Villanueva Kalaw

May 19, 2022

Tourism

DOT reopens Philippine tourism with a big bang!

April 28, 2022

Food

Around the world with 80 Pinoy adobos: Postcards from the homeland

April 14, 2022

Recipes

Around the world with 80 Pinoy adobos

March 24, 2022

Recipes

A tale of one too many Pinoy adobos

March 10, 2022

Recipes

Around the world in 80 Pinoy adobos

March 3, 2022

Books

From ‘Our Table’ to ‘Table For Ten’

February 24, 2022

Food

More tales from our ‘Mula’

February 17, 2022

Recipes

Tales from a Kapampangan ‘Mula’

February 10, 2022

Food

We say ‘adobo,’ they say ‘adobao’

December 16, 2021

History

The Spanish origins of our Filipino food, and vice versa

November 4, 2021

Art

Philippine history according to Kidlat Tahimik

November 1, 2021

Food

A cuisine without borders

October 21, 2021

Recipes

Project: Adobo

October 7, 2021

Food

Of national dishes and heroes

September 30, 2021

Home Cooks

Stay out of our kitchen (if you can’t take the heat)

August 19, 2021

Food

The adobo riot: Much ado about nothing

July 15, 2021

Food

Kakanin: As Pinoy as it gets

June 10, 2021

Chinese New Year

The Chinese in us Filipinos

February 10, 2021