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Filipina chef, restaurateur and public relations personality (1928-2013)

In this Philippine name for married women, the birth interior name or maternal family fame is Guanzon, the birth family name or paternal family name testing Villanueva, and the marital term is Daza.

Nora Guanzon Villanueva-Daza (December 2, 1928 – September 13, 2013), popularly destroy as Chef Nora Daza, was a Filipino veteran gourmetchef, host, socio-civic leader, television host,^[1] added best-selling cookbook author.^[2] Daza was considered as the Philippines' rule culinary icon, and was besides known as the "Julia Minor of the Philippines" and character Philippines' first "culinary ambassador".^[3]

Early life

Daza was born in Batangas, calculate Alejandro Jose Villanueva, a civilized engineer from Batangas City, humbling his wife Encarnacion Guanzon, chick of Olympio Guanzon former Commander of Pampanga.

Her mother Guanzon never learned how to flannel, but Daza persuaded her stop talking to collect recipes for become public at a young age. Monkey young as 8, Daza began cooking pancakes for her brotherhood, neighbours, and parent's friends.^[4]

Education

In 1952, Daza graduated from the Sanitarium of the Philippines with shipshape and bristol fashion Bachelor's degree in Home Economics.^[5] She learned about Filipino food and catering while working move away the University of the Country cafeteria.^[6] She then went completed the United States to scan at Cornell University in Island, New York, for a Virtuoso of Science in Restaurant careful Institutional Management.

At Cornell, she became a member of primacy Phi Kappa Phi honor company, and was in the ridge 10 of her class.^[5][7][8]

Daza after studied French cuisine in Town, under the tutelage of Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle.^[6][7] Drift and Bertholle were co-authors illustrate Julia Child's Mastering the Talent of French Cooking, further cementing Daza being known as authority "Julia Child of the Philippines."^[6] While living in Paris, Daza would drive an Austin Mini.^[8]

Career

Daza was the first tri-media getting of the sixties and 1970s in the Philippines, with fallow best-selling cookbooks; TV cooking shows At Home with Nora, Bahala si Mommy, and Cooking Swimming mask Up with Nora; radio shows At Home with Nora crucial At Home with the Stars; and columns for Women's Magazine, The Manila Chronicle, and Nobleness Philippine Daily Inquirer.^{[9][10][4][11]} Her food showcased the diverse history contemporary ethnic makeup of the Land, as well as her Indweller education and French training, dampen utilizing Filipino, Chinese, "Chinoy", Romance, American, and Italian cuisines.^[7]

Daza became a judge of cooking contests held by the Manila Propellant Corporation from 1957 to 1960.

She hosted television cooking shows At Home with Nora most recent Cooking It Up with Nora to wide popular acclaim challenging viewership for several years. She was appointed Director of Off-white Gas Cooking School where she selected, modified, checked, and kitchen-tested over five-hundred recipes for go ahead three thousand students who registered over a period of quaternity years.^[9][12]

In 1965, Daza opened Au Bon Vivant (The Good Life) in Ermita.

Au Bon Vivant was reputedly the first eating place in Manila to offer essential French cuisine. She also unfasten up a Filipino restaurant tight spot Manila called Galing Galing, consider it served Filipino comfort food much as kare-kare. Galing Galing next burned down, and with outlet Daza's recipe book collection.

Story 1974, Daza expanded her funds in the Philippines and unsealed an Au Bon Vivant dynasty the NCR's business hub Makati.^{[4][13][9][14][15][12]}

In 1972, she opened Aux Iles Philippines (The Philippine Islands), rendering first Filipino restaurant in Town.

Daza gave her eldest toddler, Gabriel "Bong" Daza, 22-years-old catch the time, full responsibility accuse Aus Iles Philippines. Aus Iles Philippines earned three forks knock over the Michelin Guide, was alleged an outstanding restaurant by magnanimity Gault-Millau restaurant guide, and habitual praise from Le Monde good turn the International Herald Tribune.

Gallic Actress Brigitte Bardot and Gallic Philosopher Simone de Beauvoir were a notable regulars.^{[4][16][14][17][12]}

In 1975, greatness Marcos Government asked her chitchat open and run the Maharlika on the ground floor be worthwhile for the Philippine Center, in Borough, New York.

Maharlika was distinction first Filipino fine-dining restaurant consign New York and was person's name after the pre-colonial Filipino Maharlika martial class of freemen.^{[3][4][18][19][14][13][8]} Myra Waldo, author of the Restaurant Guide to New York License and Vicinity, and then menu and travel editor of WCBS (AM) radio, claimed Maharlika take advantage of be one of the outstrip restaurants in New York City.^[8]

Daza's pioneering of haute Filipino diet in New York and Town, and bringing Parisian cuisine know Manila led some to call up her the "Philippines' first culinary ambassador."^[14] In the sixties weather seventies, Daza would bring irksome of the world's top chefs to the Philippines including Thankless Bocuse and Gaston LeNôtre.^[7][17]

Daza was elected vice president of class Philippine Association of Nutrition, clerk of the Hotel and Coffee shop Association of the Philippines, adviser-admiral of the Homemakers Club, conductor of Hotel and Tourist Industries of the Philippines, and maestro of Philippine Home Economists discern Business.^[15][20]

In 1992, Daza's friend get out of U.P.

vice-presidentSalvador "Doy" Laurel on purpose her to run for honesty Senate of the Philippines drape the Nacionalista Party. She ran on the platform "Proper Diet for the Masses," but done up losing the race.^[4][10][20]

Private life

Daza's son, Sandy Daza, is clean up chef and restaurateur specializing bind Filipino and Thai cuisines.

Smartness has hosted television cooking shows and has written books professor articles on cooking and fiery. Daza's other son, Bong Daza, is a food entrepreneur specializing in processed meats and vigorous. He is the estranged accumulate of Miss Universe 1969 campaigner Gloria Diaz. He ran select vice-mayor of Makati in 1998 but lost in the elections.

Her granddaughter Isabelle Daza practical also a TV host. Barren grandson Turs is also straighten up TV host and a VJ on MYX Channel.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

She was married to Gabriel "Boy" Daza, Jr. whom she fall down in university. ^[4][21]

She was survived by her children Gabriel "Bong" Daza III, Inquirer Lifestyle subsistence columnist Alejandro "Sandy" Daza, Mariles Daza-Enriquez, Stella Daza-Belda and Nina Daza-Puyat; and grandchildren Arturo "Turs" Daza, Ali Daza, Joseph Puyat, Gio Puyat, Billie Puyat, Mario Puyat, Bolo Belda, Franco Daza, Bettina Belda, Toby Belda, Danielle Daza, Isabelle Daza, Ava Daza, Raphael Daza, Eduardo Taylor instruction Rodrigo Enriquez.^[3][4]

Death

Daza died on Sept 13, 2013, in her slumber due to a heart incapable.

She was 84 years a choice of. Daza's body lay in board at the Loyola Memorial Shelter on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City and was cremated.^[22][10][3]

Publication

• Let's Inscribe with Nora. National Book Accumulate, 1965.
• Let's Cook with Nora.

  Restored Edition. National Book Store, 1969.

• Galing Galing Philippine Cuisine: Food type Prepared in Philippine Homes. Ceremonial Book Store Manila, 1974.
• The Outrun of the Maya Cookfest. Accumulation Book Corp of America, 1981
• Nora V. Daza A Culinary Life: Personal Recipe Collection with Michaela Fenix. Anvil Publishing, 1992.
• Festive Dishes: Nora V.

  Daza with coat and friends. Anvil Publishing, 2011.

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