A vine romance: Meet new Good Food drinks writer Katie Spain
Katie Spain
Photo: Ben MacMahon
This week, Good Food welcomes a new drinks writer to our team. Please meet Katie Spain as she tells us her favourite things to imbibe right now.
I never set out to be a drinks writer. As a dairy farmer s daughter growing up in rural South Australia, I saw more udders and bovine rear ends than vines and wine barrels. My parents indulged a little; Coolabah cask white for Mum, big Coonawarra reds for Dad.
On Friday nights after milking wrapped up, I d drink VB with the workers, or (if we were feeling fancy) port and Coke out of a plastic cup. It was hardly a highbrow upbringing but it fostered a love of the land and the people who farm it thoughtfully.
Sydney’s best breakfast delivery options this Mother’s Day
Amelia McGuire
Photo: Edwina Pickles
Mother s Day should be a time for Australia to express their gratitude to the women who mean most with meaningful gestures of appreciation. In reality, many are familiar with the cycle of intending to organise a grand declaration of love, forgetting, and quickly panic-buying a scented candle at the last minute because they couldn t get organised.
This year, try getting mum something that doesn t smell like vanilla and desperation.
One of the silver linings of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the sophistication of food delivery from restaurants and cafes. This year, it s all about brunch delivery, eradicating the need to drive wide-eyed to the nearest Westfield with the rest of Sydney on May 9.
With so much time spent at home, this year s isolation caused many to look inward during shelter-in-place orders and pose bigger questions to themselves about the world, questions about meaning and purpose. In fact, Google Trends shows that searches for the term spirituality spiked to an all-time high this October, nearly doubling what it had been last January, before we d ever heard of the novel coronavirus.
If you spend any time at all perusing TikTok or Instagram, the algorithm is bound to serve you up bite-size videos of yoga practices, tarot readings, or videos on how to align your chakras. It s no secret that many are choosing to explore the spiritual side of life. Just a couple of years ago, Pew Research found that although more Americans, especially the younger generations, are rejecting traditional religion, feelings of spirituality are continuing to climb.
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