London food blogger events

A taste of Sweden – dinner at the Swedish ambassador’s residence

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  Isn’t it funny how some nights, you get ready for a party effortlessly:  everything you put on looks good; your mascara goes on without a smudge; and you arrive on time and relaxed.  Once at the party, the smooth sailing continues as you make witty small talk with interesting strangers; sip champagne and juggle [...]

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Tilda Diwali supper club @ The London Foodie – one from the vaults

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    How did I manage to leave this post about a supper club I attended towards the end of last year languishing in my drafts folder for the better part of ten months?  Well, I have a pretty big drafts folder!! Mea culpa.  Moving rapidly on. Earlier last year, the lovely Luiz of The [...]

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A blind date with Swedish chef Andreas Hedlund

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When I told my friends earlier this month that I was going on a blind date with a Swedish chef, their reactions tended to fall into three distinct categories: “Oh – so you’re going on a date with one of the Muppets?” “Does Nick know about this?!?” “Why bother?  You an get such good Swedish [...]

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An evening of wine and wedding couture with Love & Lord

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  It was one of those invitations that land in your inbox and catch your eye because of their sheer unlikeliness.  I’ve been to wine and food matching dinners – but matching wines to wedding dresses?  Surely this was some sort of wind-up?  But no, having re-read the invitation, this was definitely what it said: [...]

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The Food Blogger Indaba 2012 survey (and a long overdue Wines of South Africa braai post!)

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 In case you missed my tweet last week, I’m thrilled to say that CookSister was featured in leading UK newspaper The Times last week as web search of the day – page 28 of the Register section.     Flicking through my archives recently as part of lots of behind-the-scenes work taking place here at CookSister HQ, [...]

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The London Cooking Club cooks… South African!

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  A long time ago in a faraway land, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, encyclopaedias were made of paper, and blogging was in its infancy, a very lovely friend of mine Johanna had an idea.  She was about to have her second baby and knew that she would be housebound for a while, but she [...]

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Andrew’s Really Secret Event – an afternoon with Australia’s First Families of Wine

July 13, 2011

  So… we'd been walked around Mayfair to a secret location - with a dress code, no less.  We'd missed trains and braved walks in dark woods up precipitous hills as well as hangovers to attend.  So when the invitation for the 4th in the series of ARSE (Andrew's Really Secret Event) gatherings arrived, I signed [...]

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