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Love Yourself healthy meal delivery [Review]

by Jeanne Horak on January 16, 2022 4 Comments in Product reviews

Does it ever feel as if you are a former citizen of the lost city of Atlantis? As if you come from a world that has sunk without a trace beneath the waves, never to be seen again? I’ve been feeling that way a lot lately as I look through Google’s handy reminders of what […]

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Antillean

by Jeanne Horak on December 29, 2021 No Comments in London restaurants, Restaurants

When I was about ten years old, my older sister (then in her mid 20s) decided that she was off to adventure and left South Africa on an extended working holiday.  These were the early 1980s before migration became as hot a potato as it is now and work visas were easier to come by. […]

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Festive roast lamb with pomegranate glaze

by Jeanne Horak on December 23, 2021 No Comments in Christmas, Dairy-free, Gluten-free, Main course - meat

Roast lamb with pomegranate glaze

Have you ever thought about the difference between culture and tradition – or even wondered whether there is even a difference  between them? They are definitely intertwined and both inform and influence each other – for example, a tradition can grow to be so widespread that it becomes an accepted part of a culture.  But […]

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Rustic blood orange and pistachio galettes

by Jeanne Horak on June 21, 2021 5 Comments in Baking (sweet), Dessert, Fruit, Recipes

Blood orange & pistachio galettes

[Reading this in a feed reader like Feedly or Flipboard? Cooksister’s feed is being updated to https://www.cooksister.com/feed – please resubscribe in your reader of choice!] When people start getting wistful about the “good old days” and how thing were so much better when they were young/before the world wars/before the Rolling Stones were born, I […]

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Cauliflower steak Welsh rarebit

by Jeanne Horak on March 10, 2021 15 Comments in Main course - vegetarian, Vegetarian

Cauliflower topped steak with melted cheese

What’s in a name, asked William Shakespeare, as he reasoned that a rose called something different (a smurgunkle, for instance) would still essentially remain the same sweet-smelling flower. Clearly, Billy-boy was not in my home town last week to witness the drama, laughter, tears, celebration, memes and confusion that greeted the city’s name change from […]

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The Melusine

by Jeanne Horak on February 27, 2021 1 Comment in London restaurants, Restaurants

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.” Celebrated science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote this in 1969, but in the middle of this period of unprecedented world uncertainty I find myself turning the phrase over and over in my mind like a pebble in […]

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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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