The way to a man’s heart is through the stomach, and true enough, for kitchen guru Ann Puno, cooking for family and friends is her language of love. “I bake and cook, and [love to] serve what I concoct to my family and friends. It is my passion,” she shares. Every year, Ann cooks up a feast for her husband’s birthday, as her special gift to him. “I enjoy every detail of it—from planning the menu to going to the market and preparing every dish, from appetiser down to dessert.”
The dessert diva, whose eponymous brand, Ann Puno’s Kitchen is popular among the country’s sweet tooths, did not formally attend a culinary school but was instead mentored by her grandmother—who was a great cook—and her 93-year-old mum, who cooks and…
