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RecipeTin Eats vs Brooki Bellamy
Oven mitts were off this week, as RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi called out Penguin Books and author Brooke Bellamy for allegedly plagiarising her caramel slice and baklava recipes in her bestselling cookbook Baking with Brooki. Just 24 hours later, US-based food blogger Sally McKenney of Sally’s Baking claimed her vanilla cake recipe was also pinched. But is there really such thing as stealing a recipe? Cookbook author and former intellectual property lawyer Adam Liaw weighs in. Meanwhile, Maehashi sat down in an exclusive interview with Good Food.

Market Brunch at Melbourne Farmers Markets
Kicking off this weekend, Melbourne Farmers Markets will be putting on a free Market Brunch on the first Sunday of every month in celebration of Melbourne’s favourite bakers and connoisseurs of all things brunch. For the inaugural event, expect goodies like loaded bagels from Fitzroy’s Masses Bagels and traditional Cornish pasties from Bobby’s Bakery. The market will run from 10am to 2pm at Kensington’s Younghusband precinct.

Our critic returned to Attica
Attica’s Ben Shewry famously declared that he does “not consent” to reviews of his world-class Ripponlea restaurant. The prolific chef took direct aim at food media, and restaurant criticism in particular, in his 2024 memoir Uses for Obsession. Despite the controversy, Good Food’s chief restaurant critic Besha Rodell returned to the Melbourne dining institution to pen a review of how it holds up in 2025.

Hot ticket: Mother’s Day high tea with Emelia Jackson
Yet to wrangle Mother’s Day plans for next weekend? MasterChef winner and Good Food columnist Emelia Jackson is putting on an exclusive high tea in the heart of the city at the State Library Victoria on Sunday, May 11. Tickets are $47.50 and include an elegant two-hour tea complete with live acoustic music, a glass of bubbly on arrival, coffee, tea and a spread of sweet and savoury morsels by Jackson including her Paris-brest, pistachio financiers, and lemon bay petite gateaux (as seen in the Dessert Masters finale).

A Sunday sauce that will make your house smell like a home
Level up your Sunday meal prep this week with Katrina Meynink’s meaty, slow-cooked pasta sauce recipe. It simmers for five hours so you can get your Sunday chores done while your house smells like Nonna’s. Plus, find other delicious make-ahead recipes on the Good Food app (your future self will thank you).

Hot ticket: Sunda is back with Saadi pop-up
After closing unexpectedly in late January, hatted Punch Lane restaurant Sunda is back. Well, sort of. The modern South-east Asian diner is opening its doors again for a temporary pop-up by chef couple Saavni Krishnan – the 2025 Age Good Food Guide Young Chef of the Year – and Aditya “Adi” Suresh. Kicking off on Thursday May 1,Saadi at Sunda will run for the entire month and includes an $80 set dinner menu – plus an abridged $40 set lunch menu and small a la carte snack selection – of Indian-ish dishes.

Our most popular recipes of April
Adam Liaw’s one-pan chicken and potato recipe might just be the perfect midweek meal. Less than six ingredients? Tick. Crowd-pleasing? Tick. Budget friendly? Tick, tickety tick. Find it, plus more dinner inspiration, in our wrap-up of the top recipes in April.

Save your favourite recipes and restaurants on the Good Food app
No more dog-earing your recipe books. The Good Food app has launched a new saved function which allows you to compile all your favourite recipes in one easy place. Simply click the bookmark icon to save, then head to the Saved page on the navigation panel to view. The Good Food app is home to over 10,000 recipes from Australia’s top chefs including Nagi Maehashi, Adam Liaw, Helen Goh, Neil Perry, Karen Martini, Emelia Jackson and more.