Jenny Valentish

“I was going to work with tubes hanging out of my chest. My doctors were really not happy about it.” Smith & Daughters’ punk rock chef on her new Vegan Italian Food cookbook, plus how to get through toxic kitchens, a finance crunch, cancer (twice) and the zombie apocalypse.

Here’s how the Aussie toilet paper mogul built an international social-enterprise empire on bathroom basics and bum jokes. Back home after a stint in LA, he talks about the business of doing good and the Great Loo Roll Crisis of 2020.

Dessert Masters champ Gareth Whitton and partner Catherine Way run a cult bakery together. Now they’ve written a cookbook sharing their top 50 tart recipes, including popular rhubarb renditions and a star smoked pecan and butterscotch number.

McIntyre runs Club Sup, a dinner-party project that sells out months in advance. While her events are usually public-facing, we visited the Melburnian at home to learn how to get conversation (and wine) flowing, her go-to dishes and what to do for kick-ons.

We go on a movie date with two of the stars of Heartbreak High season two, Sherry-Lee Watson and Bryn Chapman Parish, to talk forbidden love, incels, and intimacy coordinators.

Much-loved Melbourne baker Natalie Paull says writing recipes has saved her “cake life”. Here she reflects on the mania surrounding her shuttered cake shop, the price of giving the public what they want, and her undiminished passion for baking.

Honouring her late mother – and following in her footsteps – the Melbourne-based creative explores themes of pleasure, self-love and freedom. Mu believes in serendipity and community. And claiming your seat at the table (even if you have to make your own).

Take the scenic route across pristine landscapes to gorge on the very best of the South Island’s local produce and culinary techniques. In partnership with 100% Pure New Zealand, Broadsheet has your road map to the best food off the beaten track.

The Melbourne chef’s first recipe collection is delicious, autobiographical, and made to be messy. Giving us a tour of his Melbourne home, he talks family, “food of Middle Eastern appearance”, and why tomatoes are a bit like keyboard music.

Instead of following the formula for alcohol-free wines, Melbourne-based brand Non takes more of a perfumery approach, cooking layers of flavours into a verjuice base sourced from Barossa grapes.

In a brand new exhibition, Australians can experience the works of pop art giants Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and their peers. In partnership with Tourism and Events Queensland, Home of the Arts Gallery director Tracy Cooper-Lavery talks us through what we can expect from the landmark exhibition.

When architect Josh Crosbie saw Trade Winds for sale in Lorne, he took a massive gamble to buy the mid-century masterpiece. In partnership with King, Broadsheet goes inside Trade Winds for a tour.