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Stella Prize

Charlotte Wood’s divine boeuf en daube

2018-08-04T17:42:19+10:00Categories: Recipes|Tags: , , , , , , |

Portrait of a recipe
Stella Prize winner Charlotte Wood is, to all accounts, an excellent cook and her book Love and Hunger is full of recipes - one whole chapter is devoted to pastry. Charlotte says she cut her teeth on Elizabeth David's cookbooks after learning about them one day at a friend's dinner party. "That day ... I suddenly saw how creativity and cooking were completely connected," says Charlotte.

Kids & YA fest ankle bites the footy in Twitter league

2018-07-15T13:23:55+10:00Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Tidbits
There was more bookish news than you could poke a stick at this week, and we have expanded the section to include international news. Writing NSW’s biennial Kids & YA Festival leads this week's line-up because the event was the fourth-highest trender on Twitter, edged out by the football and a major political event (thanks to some frantic tweeting by attendees), and it feels like an absolute triumph whenever books are mentioned in the same breath as football in Australia’s media.