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2014

August 2014 I presented a food photography session at Blogstock, the world’s first blogging festival

June 2014 I co-presented a food styling and photography workshop at the Britmums Live conference

May 2014 I was one of two workshop presenters at Venicefoto, an intensive 2 day course in Italy where I taught basic principles of photography, and low-light photography.

April 2014 I was interviewed by Chris Osburn for a feature on me on the CheapoAir travel website.

March 2014 I was listed by Flipkeyby Tripadvisor as one of the top 25 culinary travel bloggers to follow in 2014

February 2014  I was interviewed for a piece about me in the The South African newspaper here in London:

February 2014 My farro and roasted vegetable salad was featured on Huffington Post 

January 2014 I was named as one of the top 10 UK food bloggers of 2013 by Foodies 100

2013

December 2013 I was featured in an interview on the Grootbos resort blog

December 2013 My peach and cardamom clafoutis was featured on Huffington Post 

December 2013 My article and photos 48 Hours in Dubai appeared in Crush! online magazine.

July 2013 My recipe for Amarula and mint tiramisu was featured on the Good Food Channel website.

June 2013 Spoke as a panellist on How To Improve Quality of Food Blogging at Britmums Live conference

May 2013 My article and photos on Chihuahua, Mexico appeared in issue 1 of Legacy FS magazine

May 2013  My review and photos of Bizerca Bistro in Cape Town appeared in issue 3 of TravelSmart magazine, the FastJet in-flight magazine

May 2013 I was one of the four organisers and speakers at the Plate to Page food writing and photography workshop near Dublin, Ireland where I presented writing workshops.

March 2013 My article and photos on Eating & Skiing in the French Alps appeared in Issue 27 of Crush! online magazine (p19)

February 2013  I was interviewed for and quoted in an article by Saaleha Bamjee in the South African Financial Mail magazine about South Africa’s emerging foodie culture.

February 2013  I gave a photography presentation entitled “Getting your camera off auto and onto manual” at Bloggers’ Buzz in London.

February 2013  Presented a session on low-light and restaurant photography; and post-processing with PhotoShop at a Food Photography and Styling workshop in London.

2012

December 2012  I was one of the speakers at the #DigitalDining event in London, where I spoke on “Blogging like a Pro”

December 2012  My article and photos “A Taste of Northern Italy” appeared in Crush! online magazine

November 2012 Named on the Lastminute.com blog as one of the 5 top food blogs in the UK

October 2012  An interview and photo of me  were featured in the two major Afrikaans language newspapers in South Africa: Beeld on 25 Oct and Die Burger on 30 October

October 2012  My article and photos “Vive la Vaucluse” on the French region of Provence appeared in Crush! online magazine

September 2012  My article and photos on the Munich Oktoberfest appeared in Crush! online magazine

September 2012  A series of my photographs appeared on the MSN Food website to illustrate a piece on the world’s hottest chilli menu.

August 2012  My article on African food appeared on the Royal Opera House’s blog for the Deloitte Iginte 2012 series.

July 2012 My recipe for spiced plum semi freddo appeared in the Summer 2012 issue of Fabulous Food Magazine.

July 2012 I was one of the bloggers whose tips were featured in a piece on the best street food in London on the Hostelbookers website

June 2012  I was the keynote speaker at the 2012 South African Food & Wine Blogger Indaba in Cape Town, speaking on ethics in blogging, as well as presenting a photography and a post-processing workshop.

June 2012  I was part of a panel discussion on British Blogging Now at the Britmums Live conference in London, speaking on the state of British blogging now

May 2012   I was one of the four speakers at the Plate to Page food writing and photography workshop in Somerset, England where I presented writing workshops as well as a low-light photography presentation.

May 2012  My article on Corfu appeared in Issue 20 of Crush online magazine (p38-39)

March 2012 I was featured in an interview on Chef Afrik about the world’s top African food blogs

March 2012 I was voted one of reader’s favourite blogs in Taste Magazine http://m.tastemag.co.za/article/view/687

February 2012 I was named as one of Food24‘s top 20 South African foodies on Twitter

2011

December 2011 I was one of 200 “influential figures in business, tehcnology and arts”  interviewed about what they wanted for Christmas by PostDesk for a special feature.  I said I wanted 4 extra hours in each day and a Canon 24-70mm lens 😉

November 2011 I was one of the speakers at Bite n Write, a food blogger conference in Birmingham

October 2011 I was one of the four speakers at the Plate to Page food writing and photography workshop in Pistoia, Italy where I presented writing workshops as well as a low-light photography presentation.

May 2011  I was one of the four speakers at the Plate to Page food writing and photography workshop in Weimar, Germany where I presented writing workshops as well as a low-light photography presentation.

May 2011  I was interviewed by IT Web for an article on food blogging and popular culture, “Cordon bleu bloggers”

April 2011  My article and photographs on foods for an Anglo-South African celebration of the Royal Wedding and Freedom Day appeared in the April 2011 issue of the SA Times Magazine

March 2011  I was the keynote speaker and delivered two workshops on food writing and food photography at the Second South African Food Blogger Indaba conference in Cape Town

March 2011  My article and photographs about South African braai/BBQ food for the English summer appeared in the march 2011 issue of the SA Times Magazine

2010

December 2010 My article and photographs about cooking a South African Christmas dinner in London appeared in the December 2010 issue of the SA Times magazine

November 2010 I was the subject of an interview and feature in the November 2010 issue of the SA Times magazine

November 2010 – My recipe for lemon blackberry cheesecake in a glass appeared in the Rate Your recipe section of Crush! online magazine (page 34).

October 2010 my essay entitled The Ghost of Chrismas Past was published in Creating Meal You’ll Love, a collection of culinary essays.

October 2010 Two of my recipes and photographs were published in Foodies of the World, a cookbook showcasing the best food writing from food blogs around the globe

June 2010 I was a speaker at the second Food Blogger Connect conference in London, delivering three presentations on recipe writing; copyright; and writing style and voice

May 2010 I was interviewed by the Canadian National Post newspaper for an article about BBQ traditions from around the world

May 2010 My article on exotic salts of the world appeared in the online luxury magazine The Address.

March 2010 I was named in the March 2010 issue of the South African Oprah Magazine as one of their 5 favourite blogs.

March 2010 I was the keynote speaker at the first South African Food Blogger Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

February 2010 Giant Lurpak posters and billboards appeared all over London (in stations and by roadsides) featuring the white chocolate cupcakes that I baked for their photoshoot in 2009.

February 2010 I was asked by Morrisons supermarkets to develop pancake recipes using seasonal ingredients, and two of my recipes were listed on the Morrison’s website.

January 2010 My article on Cuban wine was featured in the Winter/Spring 09/10 issue of on-line We Magazine for Women (see p. 30)

January 2010  I joined the Food24 site as Foodie Travel expert – feel free to pop in and ask me a question!

2009

December 2009 My recipe for chicken breasts stuffed with sun-dried tomato, cream cheese and sage appeared in the BloggerAid Cook Book

December 2009 I was interviewed by and featured on the Femina website (the feature later went on to be one of the top 5 readers’ favourites in the website’s food section)

December 2009 Four of my essays appeared in National Geographic’s book 500 Food Journeys of a Lifetime

November 2009 Cooksister was one of the featured blogs in the expat magazine SA Promo

November 2009 I was one of the speakers at the first Food Blogger Connect conference in London

November 2009 I was asked by NOMU (a South African company making an excellent range of seasonings) to suggest wine matches for the recipes in the November  NOMU monthly recipe mailer.

November 2009 My article on whisky appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of on-line WE Magazine for Women (see p. 30).  It is also my first piece for WE since being promoted to Wine Editor.

October 2009 One of my recipes was selected by butter manufacturer Lurpak to be photographed for a forthcoming outdoor media campaign launching early next year.  I was fortunate enough to attend the professional photoshoot where I prepared my dish for the cameras.

September 2009 One of my photographs of meat on the braai was used as a large button on the Braai4Heritage site which promotes the concept of having a braai (BBQ) to celebrate South Africa’s heritage Day.

August 2009 My recipe for bunny chows was featured in the inaugural issue of Afar magazine.

July 2009 My article on sherry appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of on-line WE Magazine for Women (see p. 35&36)

April 2009 CookSister was a finalist and ultimately a winner in two categories of the 2009 South African Blog Awards – Best South African Food Blog and Best Overseas South African Blog.

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.

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 for Woolworths) – read my story here (although you need to read from the bottom up – start with 1 of 5, then 2 of 5 etc).

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 I was featured in an article in my hometown newspaper, the Eastern Province Herald, dealing with my 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) 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 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.

Skyways (the SA Airlink in-flight magazine) included 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.

 

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🌷🌷🌷 It’s tulip season in London! Every 🌷🌷🌷 It’s tulip season in London!

Everywhere you look, these long-legged floral supermodels are adding a splash of colour to parks and gardens and I just can’t get enough of them! It’s easy to see how they inspired a collective buying frenzy in 17th Century Holland, called “tulip fever”, but today there are less dramatic ways to enjoy them. Here are a couple of suggestions of where to see them at their best:

🌷 The ultimate tulipalooza is the annual opening of Keukenhof gardens outside Amsterdam where 7 million (!) bulbs burst into life each Spring. This year the gardens are open 24 March-15 May (click on the link in my bio for FAQs and my top tips for visitors)

🌷In London, Kew Gardens always has spectacular displays of tulips; but you can also see excellent and free tulips in most of the Royal Parks such as Regents Park. 

🌷The Hampton Court Palace tulip festival is on until 2 May and the Hever  Castle’s Tulip Celebrations until 24 April - both within easy reach of London.

🌷The Morges Fete de la Tulipe in Switzerland takes place every year against the spectacular backdrop of Lake Geneva - it is on until 8 May this year.

I spotted these spectacular red frilly parrot tulips beside St Paul’s Cathedral yesterday 🌹 Where is the best display of tulips that you have ever seen?
MASALCHI BY ATUL KOCHHAR - pan-Indian street food MASALCHI BY ATUL KOCHHAR - pan-Indian street food restaurant in Wembley

Remember to save this post so you can find it later! 🔖

[Invited] If you thought Brick Lane and chicken tikka masala or madras were all there is to know about the food of the Indian subcontinent, think again! In the shadow of the Wembley arch,  @chefatulkochhar has opened his first casual dining restaurant,  showcasing the rustic, spicy, diverse street foods of India. 

Highlights when I visited included:
1. Carrot halwa
2. Papdi chaat
3. Chicken 65
4. Tandoori broccoli
5. Smoky aubergine chokha
6. A snap of all our mains - you can read all about these and more in the full review on my blog - click the link in my bio or go to:
 https://www.cooksister.com/2022/04/masalchi-atul-kochhar-indian-wembley.html

What is your favourite dish from the Indian subcontinent? Let me know in the comments 🌶🌶🌶
🍒🌸 It’s cherry blossom season! 🍒🌸 T 🍒🌸 It’s cherry blossom season! 🍒🌸

There is no season in London that I love more than cherry blossom season! From March through to April, trees in various parks and gardens in London put on an amazing display of delicate pink and white blossoms - and everything in the city seems a little more magical. This particular tree near St Pauls must be among London’s most photographed, and it’s not hard to see why 💕

Did you know that...

🌸cherry blossoms are Japan’s national flower and are known as Sakura 

🌸In 1910, Japan sent the USA some cherry trees as a goodwill gesture… and the Dept of Agriculture inspectors nearly caused an international incident by burning them as they were carrying insects and diseases! But in 1915 Japan sent more cherry trees that survived the inspectors, and these marked the start of cherry trees in the USA.

🌸 Peak blossom season is usually only two to three weeks in March/April but is hard to predict as the weather and the subspecies of tree influence the timing.

🌸The cherry blossom capital of the  world is Macon, Georgia with 300,000 - 350,000 Yoshino cherry blossom trees.

🌸 There are over 200 different varieties of cherry blossom and some are purely ornamental (meaning they produce no cherries)

Where is your favourite place to see cherry blossoms in London or around the world? Let me know in the comments and happy blossom hunting! 🌸🍒🌸

#pinkpinkpink
Dyed Gwyl Dewi Hapus - that's Happy St David's Day Dyed Gwyl Dewi Hapus - that's Happy St David's Day to those of you who don't speak Welsh! 

1 March is the Welsh national day  and what better way to celebrate than surrounded by daffodils -  the Welsh national flower!

Did you know that:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The English name "Wales" comes from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning "foreigner" - but the country's Welsh name "Cymru" means "friends" in Welsh.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The  Welsh language Cymraeg is the oldest language in Britain, at about 4,000 years old!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 There are more castles per square mile in Wales than any other European country.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mount Everest is named after George Everest, the Welsh surveyor who first mapped the peak on western maps.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The beautiful Menai bridge (spanning the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and mainland Wales) was the first suspension bridge in the world.

Have you ever visited Wales? What did you like most about it?
*NEW RECIPE* Barbecued salmon with blood oranges, *NEW RECIPE* Barbecued salmon with blood oranges, capers and dill. Pretty in pink 💕

[AD] Blood oranges are a small obsession of mine - from blood orange posset to blood orange and halloumi salad to blood orange & Cointreau upside down cake, I am always looking for new ways to make the most of their short season. Barbecuing them with salmon, capers and dill is a perfect match in terms of flavour as well as colour (or you can oven bake the salmon if it's not barbecue weather where you are!)

When @grahambeckuk asked me to suggest some recipes to match their wonderful Graham Beck Brut Rosé NV sparkling wine from South Africa, this was a pairing made in heaven, and wonderfully colour co-ordinated with their silver-pink bubbly. Get the full recipe and find out more about Graham Beck's sparkling wines, made using the same methods as Champagne, on my blog - link in my bio above. 

What do you like to do with blood oranges? I'd love to hear in the comments!
💘"Love yourself first and everything falls into 💘"Love yourself first and everything falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball

Whether you are celebrating with a partner, with friends, or by yourself today, I hope most of all that you love yourself, love your body, love your strengths, love your weaknesses, and love who you are (or are becoming). Because... you're worth it!

Are you doing anything celebratory today? Let me know in the comments 💘💘💘

(The beautiful street art is London Hearts by @akajimmyc)
📸: @girl_travelsworld
Would you believe me if I told you this is NOT a p Would you believe me if I told you this is NOT a picture of a Moorish palace, a castle or a cathedral? And that you can get to it from central London in under an hour?

This is Crossness Pumping Station @crossnesset , a Grade I listed heritage site and one of London's last remaining magnificent Victorian sewage (!) pumping stations in Abbey Wood near Rainham. 

Did you know that...

💩 You can visit the building on monthly open days - the next one is Sun 20 Feb. Book at www.crossness.org.uk

💩  It was only in 1856, after 3 major cholera outbreaks in 30 years and the Big Stink when the stench of London's sewage finally reached Parliament, that construction of an intercepting sewer system for the city was approved.  The system (parts of which are still in use today) was designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, Chief Engineer of London's Board of Metropolitan Works at the time.

💩  At Crossness, all London's sewage from south of the river was was raised by 9-12 metres to large reservoirs so that gravity would cause it to flow further east and into the Thames estuary. (Yes, until the 1880s, raw sewage was simply pumped into the Thames!)

💩 The incoming liquid was raised by the four enormous steam driven pumps, built to Joseph Bazalgette's design. The pumps were named Victoria, Prince Consort, Albert Edward, and Alexandra. They are thought to be the largest remaining rotative beam engines in the world, with 52-ton flywheels and 47-ton beams. 

💩 The pumping station was decommissioned and abandoned in the 1950s but declared a listed building in 1970.  Although all 4 beam engines remain in place, they were so damaged that today (thanks to the efforts of the Crossness Engines Trust) only Prince Consort has been restored to working condition and can be seen in action on open days.

💩 The exuberant and colourful wrought ironwork inside is the amazing work of architect Charles Henry Driver. My favourite detail is the fact that the pillars in the central atrium are topped with stylised figs and senna pods... two of nature's greatest natural laxatives 🤣
*NEW RECIPE* Roasted Brussels sprouts with feta ch *NEW RECIPE* Roasted Brussels sprouts with feta cheese, pomegranate and pine nuts

Ever noticed how you are affected by colours? 🌈

Maybe some colours make you agitated and some make you relaxed. Or maybe you find yourself inexplicably attracted to a particular colour (oh, hi teal and aqua!💙). On the basis that all colours have a wavelength, and that those outside the visible spectrum can affect us, it makes sense that the colours we see can affect our mood or even our physiology. Did you know for instance that exposure to red light can increase your blood pressure and heart rate? Are there any colours that you find yourself particularly attracted to or affected by?

The pretty colours of these roasted Brussels sprouts with feta cheese, pomegranate and pine nuts will be the first things that attract you to this dish - but it is the delicious combination of flavours and textures that will keep you coming back for more!

The recipe (and more about how colour affects us mentally and physically) is now live on my blog - click the live link in my profile and remember to like and bookmark this post to see more Cooksister in your Instagram feed ❤️
Perspective: a particular attitude towards or way Perspective: a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something.

Perspective is the one thing that the Covid-19 pandemic has given us plenty of. It has certainly made us re-evaluate what is truly important, and also what we did and didn't enjoy about our lives  before the pandemic and its associated lockdowns. It made me appreciate how much happiness my house, my job, my friends, my own company and my running bring to my life (and how fortunate I am to have all these things). But it also brought home how much I enjoy and miss travel, the theatre, and the luxury of reataurant visits at the drop of a hat. I don't think words can describe my joy at sipping the first coffee purchased from a coffee shop in summer 2020 as lockdown eased. It's the little things...

One of the things I have enjoyed and will not miss as the world creeps back to normality is the absence of crowds in what is usually a crowded city. On the occasions that I have been in central London since the start of the pandemic, streets have been blissfully empty and it has felt as if I were discovering my city anew. This glorious perspective (hah!) of St Paul's Cathedral normally requires a long wait while a queue of tourists and "influencers" ahead of you pose for photos - but on this glorious day last Spring it was almost deserted. I will miss that...

Is there anything you will miss as Covid-19 restrictions start to be lifted?
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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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This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
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Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
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