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Sep 17, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 17, 2026

    Some foods are better left as memories (opens the original)

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    The nostalgic ultra-processed food (UPF)A Viennetta is, essentially, a fancy rectangular prism of ice cream. A bit of a cross between a brick and a log, but with fancy waves and curls and ripples, dusted with chocolate shavings. It was the ‘nice’ ice cream cake you got from the supermarket when you wanted to be a step up from the Freddo ice cream cake. Freddo was for children’s birth

  2. Issue · Sep 7, 2026

    Pho and gelato, ‘crunch&sip’, and the opposite of voting with our forks (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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    Well hello there. It’s been awhile since I’ve written, but I think there’s been a good reason— we moved to Australia. It was a lot. We have been in Australia for about five weeks now, and things are feeling a bit more settled. The kids are in school, we’ve been back to our favourite libraries, restaurants and playgrounds, and I’ve been cooking and baking. Most of our stuff is still in a shipping container on a boat, so my cooking and baking has been limited.Australian food highlights<d

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