Yesterday, October 5, 2023, as the world celebrated Teacher’s Day and in remembrance of my late Tito Gary’s would-have-been 70th birthday, I learned how to make ensaymada from his daughter and her husband. My cousins Andine and Ryan Villacorta using their father’s recipe, which is an heirloom recipe that he also inherited from his late paternal grandmother, Consuelo Araneta continued his ensaymada business after his death.
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