Bettina Makalintal

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During a recent visit to Kalaya, a popular Thai restaurant in Philadelphia, I ended a meal with a Thai tea tiramisu. To swap out one caffeinated drink for another was a clever play, and the addition of lime curd gave it a jolt of brightness. Yet, lush in texture and lightly sweet, it still called to mind tiramisu. Not long before that, at Brooklyn bistro the Snail, I had a “chocosu.” Conceptually reminiscent of chocoflan, it featured tiramisu assembled atop charcoal-black chocolate cake.

1 week ago | eater.com | Bettina Makalintal

Photo illustration by Lille Allen; see below for additional credits In the Philippines, the “dirty kitchen” is a standard part of the household. The kitchen inside the home is presentable. Yes, there might be a stove. But often, the most essential and visceral parts of cooking — the frying, the plucking of chicken feathers, the tasks that emit the strongest smells — happen in this second, partially outdoor space, tucked away.

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Growing up in Los Angeles, Hannah Ziskin’s favorite cake was the Swedish princess cake. Her family — not Swedish at all, she notes — got it from the Viktor Benes Bakery inside Gelson’s Market. “That was my birthday cake for my whole life,” says the pastry chef.

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Lorenzo Sisti/Amazon MGM Studios A Simple Favor, the 2018 film starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, is a movie about drinking good martinis. Early in, Lively, as the mysterious Connecticut mom Emily Wilson, demonstrates her process for making a proper martini.

1 week ago | eater.com | Bettina Makalintal

The following contains spoilers for Episode 8, “Restaurant Wars” of Top Chef: Destination Canada. I’m eating dinner inside a warehouse in Toronto tonight, admittedly a weird place to go for a meal. At the center of an expansive white room, I face a pink wall and a green wall, behind each a different restaurant. Or more appropriately, I should say “restaurant”: To get here, I had to walk down a long dark hallway and navigate around a control-center of screens, each with a worker in front of it.