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Way back in 2013, Hetty McKinnon was making packed lunches from her home kitchen on Arthur Street in Surry Hills, Sydney, and hand delivering them to customers on her bicycle every morning. This was before her cult status cookbook Community had even been released! 

Fast forward seven years and Hetty is a household name renowned for her hearty, mostly vegetarian salads. You could probably credit her with the emergence of salad as a meal unto itself (Ottolenghi who….?)! With another two books under belt and the launch of food journal, Peddler, it’s safe to say Hetty is well and truly an established figure on the food publishing scene.

Today we bring you a peek at the next step in Hetty’s culinary empire – her new book, To Asia, With Love. Hetty is a Chinese woman born in Australia, but now based in New York with her young family, and the book is filled with recipes that explore her heritage through cuisine. The meals are rooted in the rich fragrant flavours traditional to Asia’s diverse cuisines, but with hints of Western influence. We’re talking creamy cacio e pepe with udon noodles or vegan fish sauce! 

Read on for an excerpt and a recipe for a killer pad thai!

When designing a garden, the scope is usually limited to what the owners themselves want to see in their space. But what happens when your garden backs onto a busy coastal walk, and needs to look just as good to passers-by as it does from the residence?

Secret Gardens has made a magnificent effort to answer that question with their Gordon’s Bay project. By drawing on the colours of the surrounding headland, and inserting a diverse palette of succulents and drought-resistant natives, the expert landscape designers have transformed the vertiginous sandy stretch into a verdant, public-facing garden.

Not to mention adding a rooftop cactus garden and Mediterranean-inspired courtyard to boot!

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It’s probably fair to say everyone’s been doing a bit of wanderlusting recently. Well… probably for all of 2020! But it finally feels like an escape to the country or the seaside might not be too far away. (At least outside our 5km radius, right metropolitan Melburnians?)

The Repose is a charming miner’s cottage in the New South Wales city of Dubbo, 392 kilometres north-west of Sydney. The renovated cottage retains all the details and ambience of its heritage charm, styled to perfection with paintings by local artists and handmade details. You wouldn’t guess it was in the centre of a thriving regional city!

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