A very presidential ‘cocido’

Manuel Luis Quezon, the country’s second president, was said to have several favorite dishes as he dealt with all kinds of people. The Filipinos’ taste profiles were as diverse as the political viewpoints then as they are today. “It shows that you can’t have partisanship, which is why you have many favorite dishes,” said the late president’s grandson, author and Inquirer columnist Manuel “Manolo” Quezon III, at the launch of a series of fundraising repasts at Samira, the casual fine […]

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