Since he began his career at the Central Bank of the Philippines, his name, Eduardo Sergio G. Edeza, has been synonymous with banking and finance. But outside the boardroom, the former national treasurer and current food and beverage conglomerate, San Miguel Corp. senior vice president is known for his tortellini and his lovely Italian dinners where he cooks every single dish, from antipasto to deserto. At home and in the kitchen, the esteemed treasurer and corporate executive is simply Boy. And his VVIP guests—family, friends, bankers, corporate peers, prexies, CEOs—are just guests, very lucky guests. Boy fell into cooking as a way to fight stress and “bad spaghetti.” “I grew up eating my mom’s homemade spaghetti, the proper Italian spaghetti made with homemade tomato sauce that’s not at all sweet,” he says. He couldn’t find a decent spaghetti place in Manila so he taught himself to make his own, from scratch, using only the best ingredients he could lay his hands on. Boy’s homemade chesnut cheesecake Sardines and chorizo on squid ink pasta Lynne Rosseto Kasper [...]
