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 …
Last week the 60th Cannes Film Festival began and it reminded me of the first time I attended the festival four years ago today. Below is the article I wrote about that weekend which was published soon after in a Philippine newspaper. (I also attended the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.) ______________ Gourmet Traveller: Weekend in …
The three entries I uploaded below were articles I contributed to a Philippine newspaper. Only the most recent one was published (http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=goodLife01_jan07_2006) but I included them here anyway since these are some of the gourmet trips I made and wrote about since 2004.
Over Christmas dinner in 2004, my father-in-law, Carlos, decided to celebrate his 80th birthday by inviting his children along with their spouses on an all-expenses paid holiday in Umbria. The idea of spending a week in a villa overlooking the rolling hills surrounding Todi was hard to imagine in the middle of winter. It took …
Argentina’s greatest claims to fame may be polo and tango along with Maradona, Borges, Gardel and Evita as it’s icons but set these clichés aside and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by all that’s new. The city that boasts the widest avenues and the most beautiful women still remains the most sophisticated in South America. Here’s …
Travels with a Gourmet 