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I grew up with three elder brothers in a very small Free State town Wepener – there were no luxuries when it came to food, no restaurants or fancy bistros. We grew up on meat, rice and potatoes. But Sunday was cake day!  People came to our house every Sunday after church to have some tea and cake – So my first memory of food and the kitchen started at the tender age of 8 when my mom told me I must bake a “dadelbrood” (date bread) for the next day.  After that I had to do it every single Saturday. Later when I was 11 the ladies at the “kerkbasaar”(church fates) always asked me to taste the curry “right”.  I had to stand on the chair lean over these “gasstofies” (gas stoves) and peep in the pots and shout out what they need to give me so we can “fix” the taste of the curry. And then I discovered zoo biscuits …

Several years later … in 2012 … I was so depressed after my “Masterchef Rejection” episode, I started eating my favourite cookies – zoo biscuits – simply lots and lots of them! A week later – still eating the cookies – I woke up one morning (12 th April 2012 to be exact) and decided enough is enough, I needed to write about food and so I started this blog… lifeisazoobiscuit.

Well, since then nothing has been the same. My heart has healed and the goddess of food has opened her arms to me. My life-is-a-zoo-biscuit … happy, colourful and full of joy and excitement.

Thank you!

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  8. Hello Anel 🙂
    So lovely meeting you at lunch today!! And now that I know you are the lovely lady behind the ‘zoo biscuit blog’, I’ll be stopping by more regularly!!

    All the best,
    Tessa xxx

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  9. You have my mouth watering and my feet are itchy to get up from my desk and rush over to the kitchen to get cooking!

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  10. Hi Anel, As background I worked with Rick for a number of year’s at STWS. Just discovered your lovely food blog and have really enjoyed literally dipping into it this morning. Zoo biscuits are always on our SA grocery list (we now live in Dublin) – loved your story. I can’t wait to try your recipes and I was particularly interested to read about white peppers comeback. Best wishes and fond regards to Rick too. Susan

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  12. Hi Anel, (my head is hanging in shame as i write this message” till today i did not realize you had this blog–i aways just looked at what was on Food24. It is amazing and well done!!!

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