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Filipino chefs Tom Cunanan & Margarita Manzke, writers Nicole Ponseca & Miguel Trinidad make the final cut in the 2019 James Beard Awards

Filipino chefs Tom Cunanan of Bad Saint and Margarita Lorenza-Manzke of République, writers Nicole Ponseca and Miguel Trinidad – what do they have in common? They each earned a finalist spot in America’s prestigious annual James Beard Awards. Chef Tom Cunanan of the multi-awarded Bad Saint in Washington, D.C. picked up his 3rd-in-a-row finals appearance […]

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Margarita Lorenzana-Manzke makes semifinals cut for Outstanding Pastry Chef in food world’s James Beard Awards “Oscars”

Filipina pastry chef Margarita Lorenzana-Manzke made the semifinalist cut in this year’s James Beard Awards – dubbed the “Oscars” of the food world. This is the fifth year in a row the Philippines’ born and raised Filipina chef is a semifinalist in the Outstanding Pastry Chef category. Lorenzana-Manzke made the semis cut in the same […]

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