The July 8 Edition
Former NSW premier Mike Baird’s great cricketing challenge | Living with anxiety | The desperate search for a much-loved dog | The wonderful world of fungi | The virtues of alcohol-free beer
Game on: How Mike Baird, Australia’s new cricket boss, is stepping up to the crease
The former NSW premier will need all his leadership skills to confront the sport’s challenges.
- by Anne Hyland
Strangers come out in force as Jinx the missing bitsa casts a spell
When a much-loved dog bolts, a community mobilises.
- by Mic Looby
‘It lives in your guts’: how I cope with chronic anxiety
Nightmares, insomnia, stress … the vivid fears of childhood can last a lifetime.
- by Stephanie Dowrick
For this British biologist, there really is magic in those mushrooms
Merlin Sheldrake spreads the word about the miraculous fungal network – and why we’d be lost without it.
- by Jennifer Kahn
It’s just not croquet: the muso and the Russian who bonded over cricket
How musician Elinor Morrisby and geochemist Sofia Tetroeva hit it off over a surprising shared passion.
- by Jane Cadzow
The moment Richard Harris realised the Thai cave rescue might go wrong
The Australian anaesthetist and cave-diver tells why he believes in sensible risk-taking.
- by Benjamin Law
Murder, she robed: what to wear when you need to shoot your rich husband
Plus: get ready for the weekend with these fresh diversions.
- by Jill Dupleix, Barry Divola, Damien Woolnough, Amanda Hooton, Frances Mocnik and Lenny Ann Low
Why does no one reply when I send quirky links?
Unless it’s a Steve Buscemi cat, we’re all emailed out, writes our Modern Guru.
- by Danny Katz
Cleaning action
Paul Connolly’s Kitchen Sink Drama is a slice of domestic life, captured masterfully in only 100 words. This week: Strike!
- by Paul Connolly
How is low- and no-alcohol beer made?
Dilution, distilling under a vacuum and reverse osmosis are common de-alcoholisation methods.
- by Huon Hooke
Helen Goh’s Brazilian-style carrot cake with coconut and ginger
Pureed raw carrots give this Brazilian-inspired bake a texture somewhere between a pudding and a cake.
- by Helen Goh
Mushroom, comte and mascarpone galette
A free-form tart with the flakiest pastry filled with a classic combination of mushrooms, thyme and cheese.
- by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Review
Melbourne
‘Rammed from open to close’: Glen Iris locals are flocking to new Italian restaurant Grazia. Is it worth the hype?
It seems that the Melbourne suburb really, really wanted a modern Italian joint, with every single one of its 100 seats filling night after night.
- by Besha Rodell
Review
Sydney
Choose your own omakase adventure or play sushi snakes and ladders at suburban gem Kame House
Callan Boys discovers a high-concept, smart-casual Japanese diner among the cake shops of Sydney’s upper north-shore Gordon.
- by Callan Boys
‘Smart casual has become sloppy casual’: Good Weekend letters to the editor, July 8
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