Sarap: Essays on Philippine Food

From the Foreword:Almost from the very first issue of Mr. & Ms. magazine in 1976, food has been a regular, and major, feature. Mr. & Ms. has pioneered the coverage of food in local magazine journalism with weekly and yearly menu guides, annual food supplements, special issues on the best of Metro Manila's test kitchens, as well as features on couples who cook. In 1980 we published The Coconut Cookbook to show the many and varied ways of cooking with that very basic and versatile fruit, the coconut. In our efforts to "cover" food, we have always had an enthusiastic partner in Doreen G. Fernandez who, with her husband Will, has been a regular food columnist of Mr. & Ms. since 1963. The food review column is a field of journalism in which they excel, an amazing feat considering that their professional lives have nothing to do with food (Doreen is an academician and Wili an interior designer). Talk about food reviewers and the first names that inevitably come to mind are Doreen