{"id":124480,"date":"2025-08-30T01:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amourdecuisine.fr\/?page_id=124480"},"modified":"2025-08-30T01:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:57:50","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.amourdecuisine.fr\/en\/about-the-author","title":{"rendered":"About the author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amourdecuisine.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ma-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16729\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong data-start=\"134\" data-end=\"245\">Behind the food blog <em data-start=\"157\" data-end=\"175\">Amour de Cuisine<\/em> is Soulef Zaoui, n\u00e9e Latreche, a mother of three living in England.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It all began in 2007, when I discovered cooking blogs and online forums where people could share their little know-how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooking wasn\u2019t my favorite pastime when I was younger\u2014my studies always came first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I pursued university studies at the University of S\u00e9tif in Algeria, then at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, where I completed my master\u2019s thesis in Industrial Chemistry \u2013 Chemical Engineering. 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