CookSister in the media spotlight
I recently made a list of my mentions in various media since I started this blog and realised that if I didn't start writing them down soon, I would lose track of them! So here you have a nice comprehensive list of media mentions and accolades, all in one place. Enjoy your walk through my virtual scrapbook :)
2009
February 2009 I started as a regular food columnist for South Africa's hugely popular Food24 website - check out my column ever two weeks!
February 2009 CookSister was listed among 50 Of the World's Best Food Blogs in a Times Online article.
February 2009 In a different article, CookSister was named (at number one!) as one of the Top Ten Food Blogs for the Home Cook by the Times Online.
January 2009 My article on Swiss wines appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of on-line magazine WE Magazine for Women (see p. 43)
2008
December 2008 My article on how to cover South Africa's Garden Route in a week, together with my photos, appeared in the December issue of Galavanting online magazine.
November 2008 I was commissioned by a publisher to write a number of short food-related pieces for inclusion in a coffee table book about foodie destinations. I'll keep you posted on the publication front!
October 2008 I was named as one of the Top Ten Food Blogs from around the world by All About You.
July 2008 My article on cachacas, the Brazilian spirit that forms the base of caipirinha cocktails, appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of online publication We Magazine for Women (see p. 43).
July 2008 I was invited, along with five other South African female bloggers, to participate in the Can You Twist short story competition (part of one of South Africa's first guerilla marketing campaigns) - read my story here.
July 2008 The award-winning Woolworths Taste magazine printed a small piece in their August 2008 issue selecting their top five South African food bloggers, and CookSister featured as one of the five.
July 2008 A picture that I took for my post on SA favourite Peppermint Crisp fridge tart was used by New Moon Magazine to illustrate an article in their July/August 2008 issue.
June 2008 I reviewed a London restaurant for the "Pro vs Punter" feature in the BBC's Olive magazine, and my picture and review appear the July 2008 issue.
June 2008 CookSister! was named as one of the world's top 100 foodblogs by FoodVu.
11 June 2008 CookSister was featured in an article in her hometown newspaper, the Eastern Province Herald, dealing with winning two categories in the recent South African Blog Awards 2008. Here's the article and the original picture (which didn't come out so well in the scan).
April 2008 My article on carbon-neutral wine from the Backsberg estate in South Africa appeared in the Spring 2008 Earth Day issue of online publication We Magazine for Women (see p. 54).
April 2008 I was asked to make and review a recipe for individual macaroni cheese pots for the BBC's Olive magazine, April 2008 edition. It's not a long piece, but both my text and picture appear in the magazine.
3 April 2008 CookSister was a finalist and ultimately a winner in two categories of the 2008 South African Blog Awards - Best South African Food Blog and Best Overseas South African Blog.
March 2008 A piece that I blogged a while back and subsequently tidied up and updated was published in the Winter 2007/2008 issue of online publication We Magazine for Women (see p.57). Apart from the article (on South African red wines), there's also a short bio of me and a photo.
9 February 2008 I was interviewed (together with Andrew and Fraser) by Chris Valance from the BBC's 5Live. Click here to listen to the podcast of the full programme.
2007
November 2007 CookSister was a finalist in the Best Food Blog: Writing category of the international 2007 Food Blog Awards.
14 Aug 2007 CookSister was the Typepad Featured Blog and was featured for 24 hours on the Typepad homepage.
March 2007 CookSister was was a finalist and runner-up in two categories of the 2007 South African Blog Awards - Best Food Blog and Best Overseas Blog.
A number of my posts have been picked up by and featured on the Guardian Word of Mouth Blog favourites, including Nigel Slater's slow-roasted lamb, the Waiter, There's Something in my... Topless Tart! announcement; the Menu for Hope 2007 announcement; roast duck with potatoes and pancetta; and Aunt Dulcies' tomato and marmalade soup.
2006
July 2006 I was interviewed live on Regatta Radio at the Henley Royal Regatta. The radio station had contacted me after they had read about our food blogger picnic that takes place at the regatta every summer. Sadly, though, they never sent me the promised link to an mpeg of the interview :(
23 June 2006 A quote from my review of The Fat Duck made was used on the Guardian News Blog in a piece called Making a meal of it.
March 2006 CookSister was the winner in the Best Food Blog category of the 2006 South African Blog Awards.
January 2006 I was interviewed (alongside Jarrett, Tim, Clotilde and Anne) by the Wall Street Journal Europe for an article that was published on 7 January 2006. No pictures but lots of verbatim quotes from yours truly! Read the full article here.
January 2006 CookSister was featured as one of the Top Five Blogs in the January 2006 issue of the BBC's Olive Magazine.
My brother texted me in a great state of excitement to say that I had been mentioned in the South African Woman and Home magazine as a great source of recipes and beautiful food pictures online.
A friend and fellow-blogger let me know that on a flight to Namibia he was flicking through Skyways (the SA Airlink in-flight magazine) and came across an article on the blogging revolution where CookSister was mentioned as one of South Africa's top blogs. Here are both pages of the article.
2005
March 2005 CookSister was was a winner in two categories of the inaugural 2005 South African Blog Awards - Best Food Blog and Best Overseas Blog, as well as being a runner-up in the Best New Blog category.
June 2005 Three pieces from CookSister were included in the Digital Dish (ISBN-10: 1933249005), a book bringing together some of the best food writing from the Web that year.
October 2005 Australian paper The Age ran an article mentioning a host of wonderful food bloggers - but they ended on a high note with a long quote from me, drawn from one of my quirkier End of Month Egg on Toast Extravaganza posts. Here's the full article.
July 2005 CookSister gets a mention in the inaugural issue of Australian publication Spice Magazine, as the home of the End of Month Egg on Toast Extravaganza.
