Winners of the Zinio Magazine Giveaway

Happy New Year Everyone! What better way to enter the New Year than announcing winners for free stuff. Right before the holidays, we launched a Zinio Magazine Giveaway to help you kick off the New Year.

Zinio is an online newsstand with thousands of magazines to choose from. Zinio magazines can be downloaded on your computer or mobile device, and are especially awesome for iPads and tablets.

Here are the 10 lucky winners. Each winner gets a free subscription to the digital magazine of their choice.

Miss Juliette, Clean Eating
Kenneth, Harvard Business Review
VSharm, Esquire
Horseplayer, World Soccer
KN, The Economist
SS_Summer, US Weekly
hungryhippo, Epicure
western gal, Beauty
Hamburglar, Juxtapoz
VegWedgeGirl, Vegetarian Times

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Zinio Magazine Giveaway!

I am giving away 10 free Zinio magazine subscriptions to my fabulous readers!

If you've never heard of Zinio, they are a digital newstand and bookstore that offers thousands of magazine subscriptions and books for your computer or mobile device. For magazines, you can purchase either a full subscription or a single issue.

They currently have a holiday sale offering up to 50% off on select magazines such as La Cucina Italiana, Vegetarian Times, Wine Spectator and Clean Eating. This is the time to load up on magazines!

Better Homes and Gardens magazine is also offering special holiday issues at a discount to help you plan for the upcoming parties and festivities.

For a chance to win 1 of 10 Zinio Magazine Subscriptions to any magazine of your choice, leave me a comment and let me know which magazine you've got your eye on between now and Thursday Dec 20. Winners get to pick one full subscription to any magazine of choice offered on Zinio. That's literally thousands of choices. For example, 1 subscription to Epicure will get you 12 free digital issues.

The giveaway ends Thursday Dec 20 11:59PM ET and 10 winners will be selected using random.org.

In addition to leaving a comment, make sure there is a way I can get a hold of you, either by including your site information or by sending me your contact information via the contact form. I know, the blogger comment form is somewhat of a pain. But be sure to leave a comment. That is your ticket for a chance to win. Good luck!

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Winners of the Taste & Travel Magazine Giveaway

The winners of the Taste & Travel magazine giveaway are:

La Table De Nana, Hungry Hippo, Lily, yzhalia, and Just Kira!

If you guys can send me an email at nooschi [at] gmail [dot] com with your mailing addresses, I'll get the magazines sent to you ASAP!

Thanks and hope you all had a great weekend!!

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Taste & Travel International Magazine + GIVEAWAY

If you haven't picked up a copy of the latest Taste & Travel magazine, get on it! For those of you who couldn't snag a copy because it was sold out, it's a great new culinary travel magazine that recently launched across Canada. It's all about food with a travel flare, showing you great food from the coolest places around the globe. No worries if you can't travel to all the exotic places featured in the magazine because it includes lots of recipes that you can try at home, from tangy curry fish from Assam, to Piri-Piri sauce from Mozambique, and Mayan Spicy Chocolate Chicken!

In addition to great articles on Yucatan, Morocco and South Africa, the upcoming issue also has a write up on Ottawa! YAY!

What I love about this magazine is that it contains intelligent journalism. Something can be learned in every article and recipe; not your typical '75 recipes in less than 30 minutes'!

The mastermind behind Taste & Travel is Janet Boileau, an accomplished food enthusiast and publisher who holds a PhD diploma from the University of Adelaide in culinary history, and a Master of Arts in Gastronomy from Le Cordon Bleu.

Taste & Travel is a quarterly publication that can be found in Chapters stands across Canada. I personally love being able to hold and read a printed magazine, but if you're more of a digital person, you can get an electronic subscription through Zinio at this link here.

The first issue, a collector's special launch edition, flew off the stands in just a matter of weeks. If you didn't get a copy, here's your chance!

I'm giving away 5 copies of the collector's special launch issue to the first 5 commentors. All you have to do is tell me what you love most about the food magazines you currently read. Is it the recipes, chef features, or food porn? For me, it is definitely for the food porn and recipes.

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España Putumayo Music + Giveaway

Friends, I'm back and I'm giving away FIVE copies of Putumayo's new España CD!!

When I got home from vacation, I saw a copy of Putumayo's new CD in my mail pile, and ripped it open immediately. As I had mentioned before, I really like Putumayo's world influence, and their philosophy of introducing and connecting people to different cultures through music.

España is a CD compilation of contemporary music from Spain. The CD is a mix of both old and new Spanish music movements such as flamenco, rumba catalana, with a bit of Gypsy pop, reggae, blues and electronica. It is an upbeat CD with a very chill undertone.

The CD booklet comes with a recipe for Torrijas de Natillas (Spanish Bread Pudding). There is also a blurb on each artist, and some background info on Spain and the music featured in this CD.

If you want a chance to win one of five copies of Espana, leave me a comment and make sure there is a way I can contact you via email. I will ship worldwide, so anyone is eligible. If your email is not included in your comment or your blog link, please send me an email at nooschi [at] gmail [dot] com.

I will pick a winner at random on October 17th at 5:00pm Pacific Time.

Anyone who entered my last Putumayo music giveaway is automatically entered.

One percent of proceeds from the sale of España will go to Intermón Oxfam supporting the empowerment of fair trade artisans and farmers worldwide.

I also noticed that Putumayo is soon releasing their Jazz Around The World CD, which I'm pretty excited for. Check out Putumayo's full online catalog here.

Good luck!

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Winner of the Putumayo Food Music Giveaway

The winner of the Putumayo Food Music giveaway is commentor #15, Gina! You will receive 1 copy of the awesome Brazilian Cafe (my new favorite CD), and 1 copy of Picnic Playground.

Please send me an email at nooschi [at] gmail [dot] com with your mailing address so that the CDs can be mailed to you. I hope you enjoy them, and congrats!

Thanks to everyone who participated.

The winner was picked via random.org.

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Putumayo Food Music + GIVEAWAY

I was contacted by Putumayo World Music announcing that they are soon releasing two food-themed music CDs: Brazilian Café & Picnic Playground, and was asked if I wanted advance copies of the CD's to preview. After receiving the email, I checked out some of their music on the Putumayo website and really liked what I heard. I happily agreed to the advance CDs, and am thoroughly enjoying them. I'm a huge bossa nova lover, so the Brazilian Cafe CD is right up my alley.

Putumayo's goal is to introduce and connect people to different cultures through music. I love their concept, and am open to anything that embraces different cultures. Each CD comes with a thick booklet, written in English, Spanish, and French, that provides short bios on every artist featured on the CD. It doesn't stop there. Each booklet also contains recipes by leading international chefs.

I am giving one lucky reader an advance copy of each of the new CDs that is scheduled to be released July 28th: Brazilian Café & Picnic Playground.

Picnic Playground is a light, fun summer collection that will make you smile and dance. Two simple recipes, created by a child nutritionist and geared for children are featured in this CD. The songs will take you on a worldwide food journey with songs featured from countries such as France, Germany, Trinidad, and Australia.
Brazilian Cafe features very chill bossa nova, samba, and jazz music from different cities in Brazil. The recipes keep with the theme of the CD: A wonderful Brazilian dessert and coffee drink.

If you want a chance to win the two CDs mentioned above, leave me a comment and let me know what kind of music/songs you like to listen to while cooking or eating.

I will pick a winner at random on the morning of July 28th at 9:00am Pacific Time, and will ask the winner to contact me with their mailing address. If you are feeling lucky, and have an inkling you are going to win, you can choose to send me your mailing address in advance for prompt shipping. Please be sure to include 'Food CD' in the title, and include the name you commented with. If you are commenting without a link to an account/site, I would also recommend that you send me an email so that I have your email address handy in case you win. All emails should be sent to nooschi [at] gmail [dot] com.

Putumayo has a vast collection of CDs, and I'm sure there is a CD for just about anyone. Feel free to check out their online catalog.
One percent of proceeds from the sale of Brazilian Cafe will go to Terra dos Homens Brazilian Association supporting children's and adolescents' rights and similarly, one percent of proceeds from the sale of Picnic Playground will go to Vitamin Angels, a group that provides essential nutrients to children in the US and around the world.

***[Updated July 28 '09] The winner of the contest is Gina from Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes. Congratulations***

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