blog friends: Jeanne

Jeanne is South African. She's also an accomplished cook and runs a fascinating blog called Cooksister in addition to a busy day job. I 'met' Jeanne about two years ago when I stumbled upon her blog and we started chatting via email on and off and commenting here and there on each other's blogs.

We share so much cultural background and our tastes in food are uncannily the same. Her love for fun, barbecues, the great outdoors, anything edible, the joy she so clearly takes in cooking, photographing and writing about what she makes in a really great, really accessible style is contagious. The recipes really work and the food Jeanne makes is clean, non-fussy, with really clear flavours on the palate.

Then there's the expat angle where she shares some of the reasons she started blogging, which are much the same as the reasons I originally started to write - the isolation of being away from everything you know and the desire to keep up, somehow or another with your family.

She's a media darling too!

Cooksister.com