Whether you’re chucking them in the dishwasher or rinsing them by hand, cleaning your best glasses requires care – and there’s no one-size-fits-all solutionYou’ve navigated Christmas lunch. Everyone has eaten and drunk well. Peace and harmony reign. So…
Eating pearl: a staple for millennia becomes a modern luxury
Long associated with traditional uses, gemstones and button-making, pearls have now become a premium buy for their meat, which fetches up to $200 a kilogram“Our mob in the West Kimberley and probably the whole West Australian midwest, north-west are th…
Under the table: Australia’s dazzlingly diverse home cooking underground
Social media and online marketplaces have facilitated a boom in Australian home cooking businesses – but many operate without regulationDuring the Sydney lockdown I ordered from a different home cook every Friday night, for me and my neighbours. I disc…
Baking for teens: easy starter recipes, from homemade Tim Tams to speedy brownies
Melbourne’s doughnut don Morgan Hipworth launched his bakehouse at just 15. Here, he shares three favourite recipes for young chefsSince I was a kid, the kitchen’s always had an allure, and baking and cooking has played a massive part in my life. Excus…
Free flights and $1,000 vouchers: Australian hospitality sector lures UK workers
As the industry prepares to ramp up again amid staff shortages, one company is offering big incentives to British workers Chelsee Whitehead has worked in the hospitality industry since she left high school four years ago. Before Covid-19, she always th…
‘The bakery is like a family to me’: the asylum seekers and refugees building a new life on sourdough starter
For the trainees of the Bread and Butter project, learning to bake is the source of new beginningsWhen Tseten Dorjee arrived in Sydney from Tibet five years ago with his political refugee father, he had, understandably, never heard of sourdough. “At ho…
Cocktail of the week: Cin Cin’s lively australiano – recipe | The good mixer
Like the classic americano invented by Gaspare Campari’s bar in Milan, but with limoncello and limeThis Antipodean twist on the classic americano makes a refreshing long drink for the last of the warm, late-summer afternoons. Continue reading…
How to make the perfect lamingtons – recipe | Felicity Cloake’s How to make the perfect…
Australians are very protective of their national cake, and with good reason, but who makes the best?Lamingtons are one of those things, like Tim Tams and toad racing, that are big in Australia but, despite the best efforts of the residents of Ramsay S…
Early risers: from flatbread to grissini, instant yeast is easy and dependable
Lockdown baking might have launched thousands of natural ferments but for top cooks dried yeast is a quick win, not a cheatSourdough starter show and tell was a thing well before collective lockdowns. There’s a modern impulse to Instagram bubbling or o…