In every The Good Life: Editors’ Picks column, we round up our editors’ favorites—restaurants, cocktails, experiences, exhibits, and everything in between. Here is our latest list. SARAP: Essays on Philippine Food and PALAYOK: Philippine Food Through Time, On Site, In the Pot, Republished by Exploding Galaxies I first began writing about food thanks to Doreen Gamboa Fernandez. An essay about my great-aunt’s Kapampangan cooking won the Doreen Gamboa Fernandez food writing award back in 2005. That impressed our Arts and Culture editor at Bloomberg News, and she soon gave me a job covering New York restaurants, a welcome change after years of writing international news and business stories. Best gig of my life. Doreen and Edilberto Alegre are two of the most admired essayists on Filipino food and history. They penned a well-loved collection SARAP: Essays on Philippine Food back in 1988, which friends from away begged me to look..
