{"id":23967,"date":"2014-08-28T13:26:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T05:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23967"},"modified":"2014-08-28T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T05:26:54","slug":"isabelle-daza-longs-to-see-culinary-icon-grandma-honoured-as-national-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/28\/isabelle-daza-longs-to-see-culinary-icon-grandma-honoured-as-national-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabelle Daza longs to see culinary icon grandma honoured as National Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23969\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Isabelle-Daza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23969\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Isabelle-Daza.jpg\" alt=\"Isabelle Daza (Facebook photo0\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Isabelle-Daza.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Isabelle-Daza-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabelle Daza (Facebook photo0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Isabelle Daza, actress-athlete daughter of Miss Universe \u201969 Gloria Diaz and former Makati Councilor Bong Daza, has expressed her desire for her grandmother, culinary legend Nora Villanueva Daza, to be conferred the award of National Artist for Culinary Arts.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with reporters from Bulletin Entertainment, Isabelle said: \u201cI know, wala pang National Artist in this category, and it may take a long time before this is added to the current categories, but we in the family are willing to wait. My grandmother, as the first Filipino culinary icon, is deserving to be a National Artist. I want her to be remembered for her culinary legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nora Daza, who passed away in 2013, was a culinary icon, veteran gourmet chef, restaurateur, socio-civic leader, television host, columnist and cookbook author. In her lifetime, she served as Vice President of the Philippine Association of Nutrition, Secretary of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of the Philippines, Adviser-Admiral of the Homemakers Club, Director of Hotel and Tourist Industries of the Philippines, and President of Philippine Home Economists in Business<\/p>\n<p>She held diplomas from the University of the Philippines, and from Cornell University, where she earned a Master of Science degree in Restaurant and Institution Management.<\/p>\n<p>Isabelle enjoyed a close relationship with her grandmother, who she credits as a \u201cgreat and positive person\u201d who \u201calways brought a smile\u201d to her face, taught her how to cook and speak French.<\/p>\n<p>The actress currently appears on three TV shows on GMA Network: \u201cEat Bulaga,\u201d \u201cNi\u00f1o,\u201d and \u201cTastes Buds,\u201d with long-time friend Solenn Heusaff.<\/p>\n<p>She also stars in Regal Entertainment\u2019s currently showing film \u201cSomebody to Love\u201d alongside Carla Abellana, Matteo Guidecilli and Iza Calzado. Isabelle is slated to appear in three other upcoming movies: \u201cMara,\u201d \u201cKubot\u201d and the sequel to \u201cAswang Chronicles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabelle Daza, actress-athlete daughter of Miss Universe \u201969 Gloria Diaz and former Makati Councilor Bong Daza, has expressed her desire &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[7577,7579,7578],"class_list":["post-23967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment-ph","tag-isabelle-daza","tag-national-artist-awards","tag-nora-daza","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}