Food
Meeting lifts lid on cult restaurant 1800 Lasagne’s downfall
Minutes of a creditors’ meeting show tax debt, a lack of cash flow and a large loan contributed to 1800 Lasagne’s slide into voluntary administration.
- Cassandra Morgan
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Outcry in India as favourite street food slapped with health warning
Local media say one of the country’s most iconic bites is under attack, after experts declared India’s beloved samosa is a “sometimes” food.
- Anupreeta Das and Hari Kumar
Margaret River pop-up that served Andy Hearnden ‘one of most interesting meals of his life’ tours Australia
The curry caravan’s two-month tour will start in Melbourne and finish in Perth, and include a key reunion between Hearnden and Dahl Daddy’s in Sydney.
- Max Veenhuyzen
Victorian shellfish farmers mussel into more water in Port Phillip Bay
They farm the sea with vast ropes, and now Victoria’s shellfish industry is poised for expansion.
- Benjamin Preiss
Melbourne’s first hatted lasagne restaurant, 1800 Lasagne, enters administration
External administrators have been appointed to Thornbury’s cult restaurant, 1800 Lasagne.
- Hannah Hammoud
French fries that work like Ozempic: The push to make medicine you can eat
Peanuts instead of Panadol and a salad that can kill your appetite could be the results of a new Sydney research project.
- Angus Dalton
Taste test: We try Australia’s new lab-grown foie gras alternative
Last month, the country’s food regulator deemed a particular form of lab-grown meat – cell-cultured quail – as safe.
- Dani Valent
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- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
No longer able to breastfeed, Randa watches her three-month-old starve
More than 100 aid agencies warn that the humanitarian situation is growing desperate. But Israel denies blocking supplies to Gaza or that there is famine.
- Maeve Cullinan
‘Raising a family is not easy here’: 43-year-old billionaire burger heiress is leaving home
The In-N-Out burger chain, with its ubiquitous palm trees and cult-like following on the West Coast, is distinctly Californian. But its billionaire owner is no longer calling the state home.
- Biz Carson
The Sydney suburbs falling out of love with fast food
Australia’s insatiable appetite for fast food is hitting an increasingly sour note as local councils and community groups mount challenges over new stores.
- David Barwell