The 2006 Bloggies winners have just been announced, and VL would like to extend our congratulations to the lovely and talented author of the winning blog for the “Best Latin American Blog” category — la “Cooking Diva”, herself, Chef Melissa De Leon.

From her blog:

Thank you my dear friends and readers for your unconditional support. Thank you also for helping me to open my eyes, understand and see the world the way you do it. That is very important to me.

I am happy, really happy for this award. I proudly accept it and share it with all the bloggers from Latin America and the whole world, specially the ones that work hard every day to be a window to their countries, their passions, and why not…their obsessions.

Thank you, Chef, and best of luck to Cooking Diva for future successes. Maybe a Food Network TV show? For now, she’ll enjoy the glory of being rated the best Latin American blog on the web, and get a cool book about blogs to boot.

Congrats also to the runners-up in this THE ONLY Latino category in the Bloggies: Bestiaria, Motel de Moka, Ponchorama, and Guyana.

Our question to the Bloggies: when can we get a U.S. Latino category?

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