Easter
‘As high as you could charge’: Why Easter egg prices have surged 33 per cent this year
Retail prices have soared as international cocoa producers are rocked by bad weather.
- Nick Newling and Jessica Yun
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Heard about the Dubai chocolate bar? Here’s how to make it at home
Make the internet-busting Dubai chocolate bar and NYC-style loaded cookies better by adding in leftover Easter eggs.
- Katrina Meynink
‘A bun so fluffy you’ll forget to chew’: Good Food’s pick of Melbourne’s best hot cross buns
Whether you’re anti-peel, pro-cardamom or a fan of a wildcard hot cross bun, this highly personal list is guaranteed to set off a bun fight in your household.
- Good Food team
How a 125-metre dragon brings the Lougoon family together each year
Bendigo’s Easter parade doubles as a reunion for the Lougoon family, who are descended from a 19th century Chinese immigrant.
- Carolyn Webb
Chocolate brands hatch new eggs in hunt for your Easter dollar
As chocolatiers go all-out to reinvent Easter treats in the face of surging cacao costs, one south-east Queensland company has vowed to keep its prices steady.
- Nick Dent
The Good Food Guide to Sydney’s softest and hottest cross buns (but not as you know them)
The Easter market is increasingly competitive among Sydney bakeries. Expect more coconut, gelato and yuzu in your bun this year.
- Erina Starkey
Cost of fast fashion is too high
Clothing is responsible for 10 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions – more than cement or steel, and way more than aviation – not to mention a mountain of landfill. If we are to reach net zero emissions, we must all take our cue from these girls and recycle what’s in our wardrobes.
Why boxing has a better record on concussions than the footy codes
The football codes, on the other hand, continue to deny scientific findings and to promote full contact versions of their sports for young children.
Boxing has a blind spot when it comes to concussions
The recent Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora fight, much hyped by the media, developed into a bloodbath, serving only to prove that professional boxing on which so many promoters, agents and other hangers-on sponge livings, is a decadent activity.
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