At close of day – Gorey Harbour, Jersey Sept 2010
Click here for a full portionIndividual beef & Guinness pot pies
Is it just me or does it seem like just the other day that we were joyously welcoming the first fruits of summer into our kitchens? I remember going blackberry picking with Mowie and Bruce at the start of the summer (which turned into wild cherry and wild plum picking too!) as if it was […]
Click here for a full portionAnnouncing From Plate to Page food writing and photography workshop
Have you sensed that it’s been a little quiet around here at CookSister! HQ lately? That I might have been a little distracted? Don’t worry, I’m not hiding in the attic and taking a break from online life – what I have been doing is spending rather a lot of time plotting, planning and talking with my […]
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Wall carvings, Alhambra – Granada, Spain Oct 2010
Click here for a full portionFoul mudammas – fava beans with garlic, lemon juice & olive oil
What’s in a name? Maybe we should ask some of the big companies that experienced translation problems with their products in recent years. Consider, for example… … the Mitsubishi Pajero. These 4×4 vehicles were all the rage in South Africa’s moneyed classes in the mid-1990s. But in Spanish slang, pajero is a term for a […]
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After the rain – Seillans, France, October 2004 This is the time of year when I start feeling a creeping fear – fear of the long, nights, fear of my freezing toes, fear of broken heating systems, fear of my frostbitten nose. I wake up in the morning to greyness. I go out at […]
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