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Australia invented the Halal Snack Pack (HSP)

Australia is the hot chip capital of the world, but this is how we could do it better

Belgium invented them, America’s famous for them, but there’s no food more universally loved by our multicultural country than chips. Let’s embrace it even more.

  • Adam Liaw
Somebody Feed Phil captures Rosenthal’s wide-eyed, drop-jawed wonder at the food he tastes.

In the overstuffed buffet of celebrity foodie travelogues, this is the most charming

He may be best known for creating ’90s sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, but Phil Rosenthal’s greatest television legacy may well be Somebody Feed Phil.

  • Ben Pobjie
Is It Cake? Holiday

‘Prepare to be stunned’: This festive show crackles with the sweet, jolly, ridiculous things in life

Think you know what cake looks like? ‘Is It Cake? Holiday’ will have you questioning everything, literally.

  • Ben Pobjie
Illustration by Simon Letch

Bah, humbug. Seven tacky Christmas traditions that need trimming

Ditch the punch and punchlines, stick to ham and prawns, and have yourself a very Terry Christmas.

  • Terry Durack
Helen Goh’s soft, fluffy hot cross buns proved popular at Easter.

Raise your pornstar martinis to the most popular recipe search trends of the year

Google’s most searched recipes of the year are like 2025 itself: silly, salty and a bit of a rip-off

  • Andrea McGinniss
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Clockwise from top left: Alison Hammond, Noel Fielding, Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood.

Quirky humour over manufactured tension? No wonder this cooking show still reigns, 16 seasons in

Lapsed fan Ben Pobjie returned to review GBBO with some trepidation. Could it still measure up to the giddy heights OG hosts Mel and Sue took it to? You bet it can.

  • Ben Pobjie

All that and a bag of… Why the best snack is the one you have to work for

What your favourite snack says about you.

  • Terry Durack

There’s only one picnic food that won’t betray you with mess or spoilage

It’s portable, shareable, easy to eat and highly delicious, writes Terry Durack.

  • Terry Durack
The Bear is “possessed by an unpayable traumatic debt”.

The problem isn’t penalty rates: How to actually fix the restaurant industry

According to Baba’s Place co-founder Alex Kelly, the hospitality industry’s focus on solutions like lower wages is doing more harm than good to both businesses and workers.

  • Alex Kelly
Neil McMahon

I’ve cracked the code to healthy eating without feeling like I’m in food jail

Living and eating well as a solo can be tough. But after much trial and error, Neil McMahon has finally found a method that works. Here are his top tips.

  • Neil McMahon