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Fry, the beloved country – for EoMEoTE#5

by Jeanne Horak on April 2, 2005 4 Comments in EoMEoTE

Breakfast fry-up

Some mornings, you wake up and decide that today, your body is a temple.  You will have raw bran and soya milk for breakfast, sip herbal tea and munch an organic apple afterwards. Some mornings, you wake up and only pure indulgence is good enough.  You will hit a sugar high with flaky pains aux chocolat, […]

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Peppadew and Parmesan muffins – IMBB #13

by Jeanne Horak on March 23, 2005 16 Comments in Baking (savoury), Is My Blog Burning?, Recipes, South African products

Peppadew and parmesan muffins

Apologies in advance – this is going to be a very very brief post (for a change!!) as I am due to catch a plane to Berlin very very soon, but I wanted to get my post up before I left… Maki over at I was just really very hungry decreed that the theme for […]

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Apple caramel self-saucing pudding – SHF#6

by Jeanne Horak on March 19, 2005 15 Comments in Dessert, Recipes, Sugar High Fridays

AppleCaramelPudding

So I got to work on Friday morning, logged onto the system and quickly went to check the results of the South African blog awards –  success! I had won the Best South African Food Blog category!!  I decided by 09h30 in the morning that dinner on Friday night would be something of a celebratory […]

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Warning! Tearful acceptance speech ahead!

by Jeanne Horak on March 19, 2005 11 Comments in Cooksister in the media

I have been told that the best acceptance speeches comply with two basic requirements: 1.  Keep it brief. 2.  Talk about sex. So, with that in mind, here goes.  Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure. Thank you. [sits down to thunderous applause]

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Seeing red over food additives

by Jeanne Horak on March 16, 2005 4 Comments in Food for thought

Cooksister-tomato

There’s a joke doing the rounds on the Web at the moment, in the wake of the UK’s massive product recall following the discovery that Sudan 1 (a banned red food colouring) had found its way into a batch of Worcestershire sauce and thence into an astonishing array of supermarket foods.  The joke involves a […]

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WBW#7 – Luis Felipe Edwards Carmenere

by Jeanne Horak on March 9, 2005 11 Comments in Wine & beer, Wine Blogging Wednesday

We all know the feeling.  You’re picking up a few things from the supermarket for dinner and pass by the wine section.  Or you’ve just popped in on the way to a friend’s house and want to pick up some drinks and snacks to take along.  Or you’re just a saddo who likes to hang […]

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Jeanne Horak is a freelance food and travel writer; recipe developer and photographer. South African by birth and Londoner by choice, Jeanne has been writing about food and travel on Cooksister since 2004. She is a popular speaker on food photography and writing has also contributed articles, recipes and photos to a number of online and print publications. Jeanne has also worked with a number of destination marketers to promote their city or region. Please get in touch to work with her Read More…

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