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The chef, and owner of culinary institution Café Ysabel shares with Esquire some of the best lessons life has ever taught him.

I first started cooking when I could stand on a stool.I grew up in a Sulipena household [Sulipan is a town that no longer exists], the prime area of eating in Pampanga. It’s a little like New Orleans, very Creole, with influences ...