It was Maria Y. Orosa’s 125th birth anniversary on Nov. 29. To celebrate the milestone, her relatives gathered in her hometown of Taal, Batangas, for morning Mass at the Basilica of St. Martin de ...

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna—This university town in Laguna province skipped the lanterns and the belen (nativity scene) and went instead for a giant buko pie and a chocolate cake this holiday season. By ...

As a food writer, I sometimes have to ask myself just how far I am willing to travel to find the best of whatever it is I’m looking for. Well, for buko pie, the answer is exactly 38 miles, or about ...

Buko pie, that young coconut meat-based baked food that has by now put the Philippines on the world cake map, can now last for a year. A technology that makes this possible has been perfected by the ...