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December 2024

You, too, can make Meatsmith’s Fig and Jamon Salad featured in their new cookbook. It’s a great gift idea, too.

Jill Dupleix’s easy festive menu from three top cookbooks of 2023

Why sweat in the kitchen while everyone else is drinking bubbly and opening presents?

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  • Jill Dupleix
Debbi Fields and Wade Shealy celebrate Christmas on their Nashville Tennessee farm.

This is how we celebrate Christmas

From rural NSW to Nashville, Tennessee and a luxury game lodge in South Africa, there’s a thread that runs through festivities everywhere.

  • Life & Leisure

September 2024

Lunch with Donna Hay is delicious, with a side of house rules.

How Donna Hay changed the way we eat

Watching the cook perform her signature pasta twirl up close, one appreciates the elegantly simple approach to cooking which made her a household name.

  • Lauren Sams

May 2024

An easy pasta with flavour-bomb of XO sauce that many don’t know about

Ellie Bouhadana, formerly head chef at Melbourne’s Hope St Radio, shares her secret sauce for pasta.

  • Jill Dupleix

April 2024

A simple recipe for baba ghanoush with a twist

A desire to dig deeper into Lebanese cuisine is redefining Gerard’s Bistro in Brisbane.

  • Jill Dupleix
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March 2024

Roast chicken and a knockout sauce: a chef’s best Sunday lunch recipe

Any random assortment of people can sit down around a roast chook and instantly become a temporary family, says Dave Verheul of Embla.

  • Jill Dupleix

February 2024

This steakhouse stores its prime beef in chocolate butter

A lip-smacking recipe from Perth’s new 6HEAD restaurant.

  • Jill Dupleix
Sweet and sour fish: Junda Khoo learnt the recipe from his mother-in-law.

Jill Dupleix reveals how to make Ho Jiak’s sweet and sour snapper

Junda Khoo left investment banking to build a restaurant group built on his love of spicy street food.

  • Jill Dupleix

January 2024

Meet the CEOs addicted to Sony headphones – and mandolines

A humble kitchen utensil made the grade in the BOSS team’s conversations with nine leaders about the gadgets they can’t live without.

  • Sally Patten and Euan Black

December 2023

Josh Niland’s eight-course Christmas feast recipes

Restaurateurs Josh and Julie Niland have prepared a Christmas menu centred on the ocean and vegetable patch, with a twist on a traditional sweet favourite.

  • Jill Dupleix
Enjoy your own dinner party while Indulgence Food Design takes care of the catering.

The luxe dinner party hack anyone can pull off

Time-poor, stressed out and sick of spending a fortune meeting friends at restaurants? Click and collect from these innovative establishments.

  • Necia Wilden

November 2023

It possibly doesn’t get more festive than at The Dorchester in London, where 30 geese, 30 turkeys, 180 kilograms of brussels sprouts and 300 kilograms of potatoes go into making Christmas lunch.

Why you should go to a hotel to celebrate Christmas

From Hong Kong to Bhutan to Kenya, great venues mark the day in grand style – but each with their own twist.

  • Ute Junker
Whimsical Aussie Christmas cookies from Daniela Miraglia’s Hey There Cookie.

Sneaky hacks for the competitive Christmas cook

Ditch the ham and cake this year and add some flair to festive season dining with oysters, Italian fish sauce, cookies and more…

  • Necia Wilden

Revealed: Rumi restaurant’s tahini chicken recipe

At the eatery where Anthony Bourdain asked for seconds, smoky and spicy dishes for sharing explore new ways to frame Middle Eastern food.

  • Jill Dupleix

July 2023

“You come without expectations; you don’t know what you’ll get,” says Sian Redgrave, standing, with some of her supper club guests. She hosts them at her home, and for restaurants.

The hottest trend in dining? Eating with people you don’t know

Sign up now if you’re single, bored with fancy restaurants perhaps, or you’d prefer to share your life story while sharing supper with strangers.

  • Lauren Sams
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May 2023

‘It’s very rich’: The billionaire who loves to bake her specialty cake

Nechama Werdiger is known for her 14-layer Napoleon cake but it’s her streusel cake that her 28 grandchildren and almost 100 great-grandchildren love best.

  • Lauren Sams

April 2023

How to barbecue pork chops like this smoking-hot new restaurant

The team from Bentley Dining Room & Bar keeps it simple with Brasserie 1930, an homage to the grand brasserie, at luxury hotel Capella Sydney.

  • Jill Dupleix
MUST CREDIT:?Russell Ord / Andre Rerekura Abalone sea rancher Brad Adams from Oga at Augusta, WA.? Ocean Grown Abalone on artificial reefs (concrete pyramid shapes pictured).

This fishery looks to export ‘Penfolds Grange’ of abalone to the world

Brad Adams has captured the attention of fine diners in Hong Kong but he now hopes to export his sustainably grown greenlip abalone to the rest of the world. 

  • Gus McCubbing

March 2023

Channel Amalfi Coast by making a dish from new eatery Settimo at home

Close your eyes and let this new Brisbane restaurant whisk you off to southern Italy.

  • Jill Dupleix

‘Power to control’: why this chef is hooked on jiu-jitsu

Aside from the kitchens at his three restaurants, Alessandro Pavoni’s other happy place is the gym.

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  • Philippa Coates

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