Two cool events in Cebu
Ruth Chua with Chinggay Utzurrum
Each year, Havaianas, highlights a theme and gives Havainaticos the unique and fun opportunity to express their personal styles. This time around the invitees took a walk down memory lane to recall the ‘90s era considered one of the most popular decades of all times.
From the Backstreet Boys playlist to the retro-inspired OOTDs, a popular hashtag that means outfit of the day, and from Super Mario video games to the photowall with the ‘90s icons, Make your Own Havaianas (MYOH) had everyone feeling nostalgic.
Welcoming guests at the biggest customization of the year held at All Flip flops in Ayala Center Cebu and SM Seaside City, were Aimil Sarmiento and Leane Florendo of A.L. Amizade, exclusive sub-distributors of Havaianas in Central and Eastern Visayas
Majority of the guests opted for this year’s commemorative pair, which was a classic black sole with colorful pixels, a fun throwback to the eight-bit video games that dominated the era. Havaianas got creative in customizing their flip flops by mixing and matching them with different straps and embellished with ‘90s-inspired special pins. New this year were building block pins that used three printing technology to create the pin before one’s very own eyes.
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Teresita “Mama Sita” Reyes a stalwart in Filipino cuisine learned invaluable lessons in cooking from her mother Doña Engracia Asiang Reyes, who is today regarded as the “Grand Dame of Philippine Cuisine.”
Through her dealings with vendors, cooks and kitchen helpers, she learned and mastered the art of cooking and food preparation. Mama Sita would detain herself in the kitchen to conduct her cooking experiments and practice her extraordinary skill in baking steaming breads and delicacies such as banana cake and her own version of hopia.
Through the years, Mama Sita traveled to different countries and observed how Filipinos longed for food prepared and cooked the Filipino way. This inspired here to collaborate with her son-in-law Bart Lapus, a biologist to create a line of sauces and mixes that would bring the taste of the Philippines to Filipinos abroad.
To keep her memories alive and promote her vision of bringing taste of Philippine cuisine to the world, a Foundation bearing her name was created.
Honoring the 100th anniversary of the nation’s culinary icon figure, Teresita “Mama Sita” Reyes, the foundation recently donated commemorative stamps and cookbooks to the Cebu City library.
Ruth Chua, chief librarian of Cebu City Public Library, received the stamps and cookbooks in a turn over ceremony which was led by Mama Sita Foundation delegate Chinggay Utzurrum.
