OPRAH, September 2015

Lots to be happy about today - Singapore, my current adopted city, is celebrating its' 50th birthday (#SG50) and my small feature in the September issue of Oprah magazine - perfect timing to get back to Travels with a Gourmet after months of putting everything blog-related on hold for family time.  It's amazing how half a year can just zoom by - summer is almost over, school is about to start (more time for my blog!) and Christmas is less than five months away (yikes).  What have I been up busy with?  2015 was a year of travel (Paris, Buenos Aires, Phuket, Hong Kong, Manila, Tokyo, Moscow and Bali) and I just couldn't post fast enough before we were off somewhere again plus I still need to blog about the new restaurants I've been to recently in Singapore.  Then family time and making and meeting up with new friends became so much fun that I didn't realize till now how much I've neglected my writing.  I know it's a little bit late to do start my new years' resolution but it's always better late than never right? So, I'm taking the Oprah feature as a sign that I need to get back to what I love to do - write about restaurants, food and travel and get back to my blog. Fingers crossed it'll be smooth blogging from now on.  In the meantime, Happy Birthday Singapore!  Time to see some fireworks.

OLIVE

After finishing Orlando Murrin's A Table in the Tarn and reading about his work before he moved to France, I bought olive, one of the three BBC magazines on food and cooking he helped create and I'm so glad I did. 

Its' concept of - eat in (for recipes), eat out (for restaurants), eat away (for travel) - is informative and interesting.  The recipes are seasonal and simple, the restaurant reviews straightforward and the travel articles informative and well-written.  It's a pity I can't buy it here in Spain but I do get a chance to pick up a copy when I cross the border to Gibraltar and  do my shopping at Morrisons.  
*Cookbook photo taken from amazon.co.uk

Finally...

After almost three years of blogging about places I love and meals I've had, Saveur, one of the best food magazines in the U.S. (like Gourmet and Bon Appetit) has included my blog in their list called Sites We Love for my entry on Las Vegas' Orchid's Garden and the fantastic dim sum meal I had there. Have a look and see why I'm so thrilled!

PEOPLE ASIA

I just received the April issue of People Asia, a monthly magazine published in the Philippines. I had contributed an article to them a couple of months ago for their travel section. It was about Marbella and Andalusia and it was published in this month's issue in a six-page spread with photos I had taken in the past year of monuments, sights, restaurants, beaches and markets in Southern Spain.

Magazine for moms

I'm a major magazine reader and have been a regular subscriber to Vanity Fair and Vogue U.K. for many years now. When my sister was about to give birth and I wanted to find her a fun mom-to-be gist and bought her a subscription to the newly-launched Cookie magazine. It's exactly what mothers want to read with some fashion, some cooking and lots of interesting new gadgets featured plus articles that cater to cool moms with small children.

I got a chance to read the magazines while I was here in Las Vegas and now have subscribed to them as well. Let's hope that they don't get lost in the mail and arrive in Spain soon.