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                    [Title] => How Spiral ended my search for the best buffet
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About 500 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer, was sailing for Spain because King Manuel I of Portugal refused to finance his voyage to the Spice Islands (then the East Indies and now Indonesia).

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1172011 [Title] => My breakfast wish [Summary] =>

I wish my body wasn’t so slow in the morning. My brain does not come fully alive till 10 a.m., and my stomach is too lazy to even feel hunger till then.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 832556 [Title] => Behind every successful man is an exhausted wife [Summary] =>

I blame your wife for it,” she said smiling before we could even enter her clinic at St. Luke’s in BGC.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136021 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 443176 [Title] => We eat what we are [Summary] =>

Two days ago, Claude and I had guests over for dinner. As I was coming from Manila, I arrived just before he served them dessert.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8616/leisure1thumb.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 372507 [Title] => Philippine food, the most wonder-full in the world! [Summary] => Quioc, why is adobo different in cut, color and taste every time," a Malaysian friend asked me. She has tried our adobo from fast foods to grills to deluxe hotel and even to Amanpulo.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 330661 [Title] => Nice, isn’t it? [Summary] => You are so nice," she said. I did not know how to answer and found myself awkwardly saying, "No, I am not."

Then she goes, "Yeah, you are naturally nice."

Gee, how do I answer that? If only we knew each other well, I would answer, "Don’t you know any other adjectives aside from nice?" And she would instantly know I was, of course, joking because she is a wordy writer. But we do not know each other.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 304381 [Title] => It all started with the pumpkin [Summary] => I’ve always wondered why there are orange pumpkin lanterns during Halloween. But lazy me never bothered to research on it until last year when my cousin Fe Garbanzos sent me two balikbayan boxes of old and new Halloween décor from Chicago. My favorite of all is a big orange hand with a pumpkin pouch and with a few clicks on the Net, I got the answers.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 303913 [Title] => Enjoying the spice of life [Summary] => When I was a child, my gracious grandmother told me it was bad manners for a guest to criticize the host’s food. Whether the host could hear it or not, it did not matter. My mom said it was very wrong to say the food is not manyaman (delicious), while the other guests are still eating, because it will definitely spoil their appetite. And that is why until now, I kinda get uncomfortable when I hear guests, whether kids or adults, go against my grandma’s rule. Apo taught me to taste and "see" beyond the food on the plate. [DatePublished] => 2005-10-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 165224 [Title] => Pinatrekking [Summary] => I still remember that day vividly. Wednesday, June 12, 1991. I was watching TV in Mabalacat, Pampanga. Then President Cory Aquino was doing the ceremonial raising of the Philippine flag at the Rizal Park to commemorate Independence Day.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 164822 [Title] => Pinatrekking [Summary] => I still remember that day vividly. Wednesday, June 12, 1991. I was watching TV in Mabalacat, Pampanga. Then President Cory Aquino was doing the ceremonial raising of the Philippine flag at the Rizal Park to commemorate Independence Day.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507249 [AuthorName] => Mary Ann Quioc Tayag [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) ) )
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