Author Archives: Cooksister

I’ve been blogging for quite a while, and I have met people from all over the world who blog about food… but it isn’t every day that I meet somebody from my very own hometown of Port Elizabeth!  This rare … Continue reading →

Maybe it’s because of her background in conflict management and resolution, but Kate Abbott of the Cape Town blog Cooking Through the Seasons tells you straight off the bat that you won’t find any deliberately weird conflicting flavours on her blog. … Continue reading →

Five years ago, Alida Ryder of Simply Delicious did not know what food blogs were, let alone think about starting her own.  What started out as a way for her to record and share recipes with friends and family in other cities … Continue reading →

Social media can be an odd place.  Some people pretend to be something that they are not, exaggerating their talents and achievements online while being quite unremarkable in real life.  Others maintain a demure and dignified online presence, but when … Continue reading →

You know how sometimes you read an About Me page on a blog and you feel as if you are reading an anodyne press release and feel no closer to the blogger in question?  And then other times you read … Continue reading →

There's almost nothing to make you feel old like suddenly realising that your "baby" brother is turning 40, or that the baby nephews that you remember learning to crawl are now both in school.  In a similar vein, you kind … Continue reading →

The lovely and vivacious Carolina, originally from the Netherlands, swapped the grey winters of Europe for the sunny shores of South Afirca where she now lives in the Strand.  Together with her wife Lee (and four-legged Rhodesian Ridgeback child Ntombi!), … Continue reading →

Like me, Stacey is a South African who finds herself transplanted to London and loving it!  She blogs at Bakercourt (Twitter: @baker_court) and describes herself as writer, blogger, baker and crafter who'll try everything once. When not working, she is baking my … Continue reading →

Contrary to what conventional wisdom might dictate, I always find that you can learn quite a lot about a person from Twitter and their blog.  You can learn that they like cupcakes.  You can learn that they have a small … Continue reading →