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I'TS A MUNDANE household task: peel the shopping list off the fridge and take it to the shops. But...

‘WHO CARES? I mean, who the fuck cares?' This is more exclamation than question. Patrice Newell is exhausted. Exhausted and angry....

By Sarah Kanowski

IT IS CHILLY in Florence when we get off the fast train up from Rome. The calories from the...

LIKE A HINDU goddess, the scrawny old cook seems to have multiple arms. In no time flat, she's fried...

By Carolijn Visser

ONCE UPON A time in a far-off land, with cobblestone streets and gingerbread buildings, a handsome prince marries a...

By Julianne Schultz

AT THE DELICATESSEN counter of my local Woolworths supermarket – which promotes itself as ‘the fresh food people' –...

THE FIRST TIME I visited the Matthew Talbot Hostel, in the inner-Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo, was Christmas 2005. My...

By Rebecca Huntley

BETWEEN THE SUPER – and the farmers' markets is the middle ground – on which growers too small to...

By Elaine Reeves

TASMANIA'S LABOR PREMIER, David Bartlett, was sensitive to the critical attention his state has long attracted on the mainland...

By Natasha Cica

LAUREN DIAMOND WAS a visibility expert. "Visibility is inversely proportional to size. The eye doesn't register objects, but the...

By Loubna Haikal

THE FOOD CHAIN concept presents a philosophical quandary. It appears to be a simple model with a beginning, a...

By Rick Kemp

‘EATING IS NOT merely a biological activity, but a vibrantly cultural activity,' the food anthropologist Sidney Mintz reminds us....

By Donna Lee Brien