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Saturday Snapshots #314

by Jeanne Horak on January 19, 2019 No Comments in Photography, Saturday Snapshots

Grenada-yacht

Anchor me – St George’s Carenage, Grenada, May 2018

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A winter weekend break in Basel, Switzerland

by Jeanne Horak on January 17, 2019 11 Comments in Switzerland, Travel

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All too often when I visit Switzerland in the winter, it’s part of a mad dash through Geneva airport, usually struggling under the weight of skis and ski boots, straight into a minibus and off to the mountains and the ski chalet.  Or in the summer, more often than not, it’s a mad dash through the […]

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Saturday Snapshots #313

by Jeanne Horak on January 12, 2019 3 Comments in Saturday Snapshots, Spain

Maman-Louise-Bourgeois-Bilbao

Maman by Louise Bourgeois – Guggenheim Bilbao, April 2018

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Lentils with roasted pumpkin and chilli-marinated feta

by Jeanne Horak on January 10, 2019 5 Comments in Gluten-free, Main course - vegetarian, Pulses, Recipes, Vegetarian

Lentil-squash-feta-Casserole

When I was searching for a New Year’s quote as an opening line to this blog post, the kind of things that kept coming up either perkily referenced how the year lay before us like a blank page waiting to be written/blank canvas waiting to be painted/journey waiting to be embarked upon/ bla bla bla; […]

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The Neff gingerbread house bake-off

by Jeanne Horak on December 24, 2018 No Comments in Cooking classes

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Confession: despite now having been foodblogging for nearly 15 years, I have never baked a gingerbread house – or even decorated a ready-made one from a kit. I know, right?  You’re thinking to yourselves “and she calls herself a food blogger… seriously?!” But the truth is I have always been more of a cook than […]

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South West Wales road trip: Welsh wine and cheese in Carmarthenshire

by Jeanne Horak on August 19, 2018 2 Comments in Wales

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  “You’re staying at a wine estate… where?”  Not quite the the wildly envious reaction I usually hear from my friends when I announce that I am going on a press trip… but then it’s not every day that I tell them that I am off to visit a wine farm in South West Wales. […]

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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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