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Potato salad with chive flowers and my Pinterest love affair

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Jimmy Soul sang: If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life Never make a pretty woman your wife So from my personal point of view Get an ugly girl to marry you If I am after a great meal, I will almost automatically shy away from a restaurant with a pretty view, [...]

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Sneak peek – the Wikio Gastronomy may 2011 rankings

May 4, 2011

Preview of the Wikio gastronomy rankings for may 2011 – with CookSister! at no. 6! 1 Maison Cupcake 2 Fuss Free Flavours 3 englishmum.com 4 The English Can Cook 5 eat like a girl 6 Cook Sister! 7 Hollow Legs 8 Food Stories 9 Cheese and Biscuits 10 Chocablog 11 London Eater 12 meemalee’s kitchen [...]

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Roasted butternut soup – revisited & rephotographed

February 23, 2011

  It seems hard to believe now, but when I started this blog, I did not even own a digital camera.  My very first photos were taken using a webcam and involved carrying the food to where the laptop was then then all sorts of acrobatics as Nick held the laptop at an angle where [...]

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Food Journeys of a Lifetime – want to win this book?

February 24, 2010

I don't know about anybody else, but I grew up in awe of coffee table books.  For a start, unlike most other people I knew, my parents had a large, low table in the lounge that was in fact specifically referred to as "the coffee table" and the books that ended up on that table [...]

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H2Ope for Haiti – the prizes

February 21, 2010

After the terrible earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January this year I, like many people, felt overwhelmed by the enormity of the disaster.  But a first-hand account from a friend who had flown a relief flight to Haiti after the quake provided the impetus to push me into action and not stand idly by as others suffered. [...]

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Sundays in South Africa – culinary inspiration for visitors

January 18, 2010

Sundays in South Africa started in 2010 when the FIFA World Cup 2010 took place for the first time ever on African soil – in my home country of South Africa.  I can’t tell you how proud this makes me. As our national treasure Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said at the opening ceremony: “I cant believe it, I [...]

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Menu for Hope 6 goes live – bid, bid, bid!

December 14, 2009

If it's nearly Christmas, then it must be time for Menu for Hope.   The  Menu for Hope event is the brainchild of Pim and takes place once a year around Christmas. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, the campaign involves food bloggers (and others) from around the world each donating something to [...]

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