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Food in space! 01 | Eating in orbit
Space: The final gastronomic frontier. For the brave souls who venture far above the world, when they get peckish, can they rely on more than a floating tin can of food? The first ...
One with everything — How Australia eats the world
What's on the menu this week? For many Australians, food is an adventure with limitless potential. A lamb roast on Sunday, a meat pie at the football, and perhaps a toastie with wa...
The occasional cake — How we ice and slice our memories
What would a birthday or a wedding be without cake? Celebration cakes are a signifier of occasion, sometimes requiring superhuman effort to bake and decorate. We explore the surpri...
A tasteful guide to flavour
You say tomato, I say… bleurgh. How is it that we can have such different experiences of the same foods? Taste and flavour: What are they and how do they work? We meet some of the ...
Native ingredients — The taste of place
What characterises Australian food? We're a nation adept at making first-rate versions of food drawn from all corners of the globe, but our palates are less familiar with the foods...
Food for sport — High performance eating
Many of us imagine that an athlete's diet consists of sports supplements providing carefully calibrated doses of carbohydrates, protein and electrolytes, but for ancient Olympians,...
Which came first? An ode to the egg
The egg is an extraordinary thing. In the pantheon of miraculous food chemistry, it takes on a range of essential roles. From helping cakes and soufflés to rise, to bringing dispar...
Democracy sausage — How Australia put snags on the ballot
Australians don't always see eye to eye on election day, but there is one unprepossessing foodstuff that seems to straddle divides of age, geography, ideology and class: the sausag...
Why am I hungry?
What is appetite? Many happily succumb to it, while others struggle against it through willpower or even pharmaceuticals. But what are the biological, cultural and psychological me...
Food fight — How war changed the way we eat
In times of war, food and nourishment can determine victory or defeat. Welcome to the world of military food. Armies once lived off the land, but now they can live off a sealed, fr...
Easter and Passover — Feasts of faith
In many religions, the key moments of ritual centre around food. Whether it's Eid al-Fitr, Passover or Easter Sunday, these feasts mark the passing of time and have bounty and rene...
Richard Hart — Sourdough superstar
If you were to list the world's best bakers working today, Richard Hart's name would have to be right near the top. After honing his craft at big-name bakeries in California, he te...
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