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Smoked oysters and chicken broth
“When done with consideration, cooking can be a great way to show the oyster’s flavour. In winter, especially, oysters tend to have more of a muscle, and rock oysters can be treated almost like clams to show this off. This recipe uses smoked oysters in a Chinese-style chicken broth that riffs on the meatiness of the oyster. Next to this is one of my favourite things of all time – buttered cabbage and turnip – which gives it a bass note. ”
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BIRTH
“Welcome to our village wee one.”
The New Zealand prime minister announces the birth of her first child. No news yet on what Charles Wooley thinks but it’s probably creepy.
ART
“The work itself refuses to respond. It’s the null of the image.”
The artist describes his work Under the Bitumen the Artist, which saw him entombed beneath a Hobart street for 72 hours. Drunks jumped up and down on the road where he was buried, so that even under the earth he could know he was in Tasmania.
MEDIA
“I’m doing this so the girls feel empowered, and know their mum stood up and defended our fine name.”
The estranged wife of Barnaby Joyce agrees to an interview with the journal of record, Women’s Weekly. It’s a fine name to defend, except that it is also her husband’s.
COMEDY
“Clamping down on Winnie the Pooh comparisons doesn’t exactly project strength. It suggests a weird insecurity.”
The satirist becomes the subject of a Chinese ban on social media after mocking President Xi Jinping. A real leader would have just pointed out how much Oliver looks like a weird cross between Rabbit and Piglet and maybe Christopher Robin.
TAX
“You’ve heard it from the horse’s mouth!”
The One Nation leader explains that she is a supporter of workers. That is why she is backing tax cuts for the rich and a pay increase for herself.
AMERICA
“I have a much better apartment than they do. I’m smarter than they are. I’m richer than they are.”
The president chooses the occasion of caging children to boast about his apartment and explain why he is better than the liberal “elites”. The only guilt that interests him is on the frames around his mirrors.
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