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Inside one of the shiny new shops at Chadstone’s Market Pavilion.

Chadstone’s shiny new Market Pavilion is a spectacle, but does it deserve the hype?

Recipe bots, pre-packaged meals and sweet treats are all there. But where do you sit down and eat? Here’s Good Food’s guide to the enormous food precinct.

  • Emma Breheny

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Cattle farmer Fiona Conroy at her farm  in St Leonards.

Cattle farmers would rather cop Trump’s tariffs than diseases from American beef

Farmers have reacted defiantly as the US president singled out Australia’s beef in his trade crackdown as Albanese and Dutton say they would never compromise biosecurity.

  • Mike Foley, Angus Delaney and Jessica McSweeney
Australian food consumption habits data released.

More meat and chips, less chocolate: here’s how our eating habits have changed

Australians bought more than 15 million tonnes of food and non-alcoholic drinks last financial year – but the things we reached for have shifted.

  • Millie Muroi

We know we should eat better to live longer. Why are so few of us doing it?

Two large new studies suggest that despite growing awareness about health and wellness, we’re getting no better at maintaining a healthy diet.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Fast food workers at Chinese burger chain Tastien prepare orders at a store in Beijing.

Made in China burger and fries has a side of nationalism

I went to a Tastien fast food outlet to try the burger that’s designed to knock McDonald’s and KFC off their Beijing perch. Some come here just for the buns.

  • Lisa Visentin
A tempura with salmon and tuna creation by Slavnyi Horodos sushi master, at the restaurant in Sloviansk, Ukraine.

How do you serve fresh sushi in a frontline town during a war? With love and courage

Even a missile destroying his apartment and a concussion have not stopped Serhii Kovalov moving mountains to give Ukrainian troops what they like.

  • Cassandra Vinograd and Dzvinka Pinchuk
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It is no time to start charging for click and collect.

Why shoppers love click and collect, and the supermarkets don’t

With everyone blaming the supermarkets for the cost-of-living crisis, now is not the time for them to start charging for the popular service, as much as they may want to.

  • Elizabeth Knight
YouTuber Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson, aka MrBg is one of YouTube’s most popular creators

YouTube’s biggest star MrBeast makes more money from chocolate than videos

MrBeast is the biggest YouTube star in the world with his viral videos. But his real moneymaker is offline.

  • Lucas Shaw and Aisha Counts
Phil Keelan, Five Guys AU Head of Operations, and Joel Bearden, Five Guys VP of marketing, at the newly opened Martin Place Metro outlet.

‘We made a mistake’: How US burger chain Five Guys is slow-cooking its way to success

Five Guys has built a cult following around the world but has decided to take a slower approach expanding in Australia.

  • Jessica Yun
The egg shortage is partly the result of bird flu outbreaks.

‘Crazy jump in price’: Shoppers, farmers brace for years-long egg shortage

Bird flu outbreaks have choked the nation’s supply of eggs – and frustrated egg farmers say the proposed ban on caged eggs is exacerbating the problem.

  • Jessica Yun

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