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Print Issue 23

We're back. After a three-year hiatus, Broadsheet print issues are on the streets of Melbourne again.

Head to your local cafe and pick up a copy to read about the city's last hand-pleating workshop; sit in on a staff meal with the team at Ides restaurant; learn how Preston barbeque joint Dexter makes its famous meat doughnuts; and see what happened when comedian Ryan Shelton tried to eat 10 of Supernormal's New England lobster rolls in a single sitting.

Work Uniform: Tom Riley

Work Uniform: Tom Riley

The Australian director of P Johnson Tailors has a “scruffy” sense of style that nonethless has a casual sense of elegance about it.

IPA Evolves Again

IPA Evolves Again

Craft beer's most popular style has produced yet another variant: the so-called “brut IPA”.

Very Serious Business: Why Do I Pay For Milk?

Very Serious Business: Why Do I Pay For Milk?

The lactose intolerant and/or indifferent are being mistreated across the nation, and no one is saying anything. Black-coffee-drinker Patrick Boyle thinks it’s time to make a stand.

Strawberry Versus Acai Berry

Strawberry Versus Acai Berry

In our ongoing series, “Versus”, we look at two similar ingredients or products and ask: what are the actual differences between them?

What to Plant This Spring

What to Plant This Spring

Get your veggie patch off to a flying start with help from gardener and author Mat Pember.

Six Tips to Help Flowers Last

Six Tips to Help Flowers Last

Some simple advice to ensure your next bunch looks better and lasts longer.

Didirri’s Search for Honesty and Connection

Didirri’s Search for Honesty and Connection

A remarkable family upbringing is behind this rising singer-songwriter, who you're going to be hearing a lot more about in coming years.

A Closer Look: Sunda

A Closer Look: Sunda

Polished, ambitious Southeast Asian cooking arrives in Melbourne, elegantly refuting stereotypes around the cuisines.

Cafe Highlights: September

Cafe Highlights: September

New cafes are opening constantly. In partnership with Vittoria Coffee, we're shining a light on the best recent entries, whether they're pushing the genre forward or simply excelling at the familiar.

Folded Histories

Folded Histories

Melbourne’s last hand-pleating workshop – and one of just a few left in the world – is keeping a time-honoured art alive. But it looks certain to go under, unless a crowdfunding campaign can save it.

Designing Tomorrow

Designing Tomorrow

Hospitality design is more vital than it’s ever been. Here are six young firms behind our favourite spaces across the country.

Staff Meal: Ides

Staff Meal: Ides

In fine dining, where chefs and waiters often work long stretches without a break, it’s customary for the front- and back-of-house teams to gather for a meal and bond prior to service. We dropped in for one at Collingwood restaurant Ides, where the conversation took an unexpected turn over flank steak and pasta bake.

Places We Swim: Lightning Ridge Artesian Bore Bath

Places We Swim: Lightning Ridge Artesian Bore Bath

This thermal pool in western New South Wales sits at a steamy 40 degrees, like a giant outdoor bathtub.

How It’s Made: Dexter’s Meat Doughnut

How It’s Made: Dexter’s Meat Doughnut

In our ongoing series, we look at iconic Melbourne dishes and exactly what needs to happen before they can reach the plate.

More Super Than Normal

More Super Than Normal

The story of an iconic Melbourne dish – Supernormal's lobster roll – and a hero who dared to eat 10 in a single sitting.

Label to Know: Stetig

Label to Know: Stetig

A small-run menswear label with soft suiting for the conscious consumer.

Sounds Like a Good Idea

Sounds Like a Good Idea

These unconventional headphones are the highest-funded Australian Kickstarter project to date. What made 7700 people excited enough to pledge money?

Is the Term “Natural Wine” Still Useful?

Is the Term “Natural Wine” Still Useful?

Earlier this year Australia’s most important wine festival – Rootstock Sydney – abruptly shut down. What does it mean for the offbeat wines it helped normalise across the country, and the industry as a whole?

Would You Like Improved Focus With That?

Would You Like Improved Focus With That?

Bulletproof coffee had us adding butter to our long blacks. Now baristas are dosing orders with coconut oil and tea extracts in the name of better health. But does the science stack up?

How Melbourne Museum Became One of the City's Best Music Venues

How Melbourne Museum Became One of the City's Best Music Venues

The adults-only series of Nocturnal events has turned Melbourne Museum into one of the city's best late-night venues. We found out how it's making an impact.

Other Series

Where Chefs Eat in Melbourne

Fun Week

Fun Week

World Class Content Melbourne 2017

World Class Content Melbourne 2017

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RECIPES

Recipe: In Italy, These Fluffy Bomboloncini, or Doughnut Holes, Are Considered the Perfect Morning Mouthful

Recipe: In Italy, These Fluffy Bomboloncini, or Doughnut Holes, Are Considered the Perfect Morning Mouthful

Recipe: A Peppery Native Ingredient-Driven Dressing for Fresh Oysters

Recipe: A Peppery Native Ingredient-Driven Dressing for Fresh Oysters

Recipe: You Can Have Rosheen Kaul’s Burnt Spring-Onion Oil Noodles on the Table in Under 15 Minutes

Recipe: You Can Have Rosheen Kaul’s Burnt Spring-Onion Oil Noodles on the Table in Under 15 Minutes

Recipe: Put On Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Weekend Sauce and Let It Simmer Into Magnificence

Recipe: Put On Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Weekend Sauce and Let It Simmer Into Magnificence

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