With a small flashlight in hand, the man known around the Palace as Caster inspects the array of dishes before him, hoping he won’t find anything sinister lurking in the meat and vegetables to be served to his boss a few hours later.
As President Benigno Aquino III’s personal food tester, Senior Police Officer 3 Jaime Castro relies on his senses to keep the country’s most powerful man safe from something unedible and harmful in his food.
This moment in Caster’s daily routine has been captured in “Inside Malacañang,” the National Geographic Channel documentary on the Philippine presidency.
