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  • Half empty egg carton

    Eggs
    Cheap, reliable egg alternatives: what to use for whipping, baking and high-protein snacking

    No one thing can replace an egg’s multiple uses – but based on what you’re cooking, easy, low-cost alternatives abound
  • Nicholas Jordan surrounded by bars of dark chocolate in their packaging

    Taste test
    Australian supermarket dark chocolate taste test: ‘I feel like a refined, classy lady eating this’

  • Composite of Hot Cross Buns for Aus Lifestyle story. Images supplied by Gelato Messina, Shadow Baking, Papa Pasticceria and Happy Alley.

    Easter
    Sexy, covetable hot cross buns: Australia’s obsession with Easter treats

  • Alice Zaslavsky's pan confit tomate or tomato bread, served on a white plate with four hands reaching for the dish

    You've got this
    Top-notch tapas: Alice Zaslavsky’s recipe for garlicky tomato bread

  • A stage performance with a woman in seeming despair on the floor

    Kindness of strangers
    The kindness of strangers: I was ready to leave the theatre in disgrace when a gentle usher made me an offer

  • Eoin O’Dwyer (right) and Mitch (left) at their wedding at Cashel Palace Hotel, Ireland

    The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: he bared his soul in a performance and I fell for his sensitive side

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Food

  • Alice Zaslavsky's pan confit tomate or tomato bread, served on a white plate with four hands reaching for the dish

    You've got this
    Top-notch tapas: Alice Zaslavsky’s recipe for garlicky tomato bread

    The cookbook author’s take on Catalonian-style pan con tomate turns Turkish bread into a giant crostini topped with jammy toms cooked in chorizo fat
  • Taste Test writer Tristan Lutze holds a fishing rod with a packet of frozen fish attached to the line

    Taste test
    Australian supermarket frozen crumbed fish taste test: from catch of the day to a ‘terrible chicken nugget’

  • Grapes

    Grape expectations
    Crispy Dreams and Cotton Candy: why are there so many new kinds of grape?

  • Easter treats
    Smaller, more expensive chocolate eggs may leave ‘bitter’ taste this Easter, warns Australia’s consumer watchdog

  • Taste test
    Australian canned cocktails taste test: from grownup drinks to ‘a hen party in a can’

  • Australian food in season
    Get a head: brassicas top Australia’s best-value fruit and veg for April

  • Italian cooking
    Spiced chicken, pasta with peas and a twist on biscotti: three recipes from Guy Mirabella

  • You've got this
    One-pot wonder: Alice Zaslavsky’s mussels with sauteed veggies recipe

  • Australian food and drink
    Affordable, easy and with a huge flavour punch: three Korean-style recipes from Billy Law

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Relationships

  • Did you confess your feelings for your best friend after watching When Harry Met Sally?

    Tell us: have you been inspired to declare your love inspired by a piece of art?

  • A man in a white T-shirt looks troubled as he reclines on a sofa with arms behind his head

    Should I stay with my partner – despite the dull, dispassionate sex?

    I don’t need to swing from the rafters, but I do need something more than moderately paced sex in the missionary position ...
  • A baby napping

    Put your baby down to nap near a washing machine, expert says

    Researcher warns that dark daytime naps can disrupt babies’ sleep when they properly go to bed at night

  • My young boy is the English son of Irish parents…

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • I’m nearly 60, but my father’s indifference towards me still stings

  • What happens when love tips over into the infatuated state of ‘limerence’?

  • How to raise kind children: lead by example, talk it over … and get a dog

  • This is how we do it: ‘If one of us is on a business trip and meets someone, we’re free to pursue it’

  • Blind date: ‘I was in the bathroom when she arrived – the maitre d’ thought I’d done a runner’

  • A moment that changed me: I brought a baby gorilla home – and learned so much about being a parent

  • My wife and I are suffering ‘lesbian bed death’. Is there any way back?

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Fashion

  • Carol Green at Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show's Floral Friday event, wearing head-to-toe Balenciaga in a matching floral print

    Australian fashion
    In full bloom: fashionable fun at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

    Petal patterns, purple paisleys and swirls of green leaves were in abundance at the annual Floral Fridays event
  • Martin Grant coat

    Martin Grant’s 40-year fashion career – in pictures
    Naomi Campbell, Cate Blanchett and a show inside a skirt

  • (L-R): A guest wears a sheer white Dolce Gabbana jacket, floor length dress and jeans. Suzanne Browne wears a black blazer, white fedora, black tulle skirt and pearl necklace

    Australian fashion
    ‘Fun and sexy – plus it’s got pockets’: Melbourne’s fashion set fall for floor-length hems

  • Amy Lawrence holds her award

    Australian fashion
    From lockdown craft project to $20,000 prize: Amy Lawrence wins Australia’s National Designer award

  • A model with dark hair wearing a mustard coat over a draped brown dress and holding a bag of lemons

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    What can we learn from the clothes we buy but never wear?

  • Three models with long, dark hair wearing black, short dresses with wide skirts

    Versace
    Milan fashion week: not just Versace dresses for sale, but the company itself

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Health & fitness

  • Young woman sleeping peacefully

    Cinderella partying: why young women no longer dance until dawn

  • Adrian Chiles

    I thought seasonal affective disorder was a myth. Then I saw the joy that spring can bring

    Adrian Chiles
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    You too can have a body like Donald Trump’s. Here’s how

    Arwa Mahdawi
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Travel

  • Postcard composite for A local's guide to Narooma

    Local's guide to Australia
    A local’s guide to Narooma: ‘People are amazed at how turquoise the water is’

    Known for its rock oysters and waterside eateries, the New South Wales coastal town’s food and drink is just the beginning, says local author and yoga teacher Jody Vassallo
  • A woman and deer in the park at sunset, Japan.

    Travel tips
    Don’t avoid romantic destinations: 15 solo travel tips from Lonely Planet’s women writers

  • Khao Sok

    Thailand holidays
    Avoid the White Lotus effect: Thailand travel without the tourists

  • Local's guide to Australia
    Our pubs are busier than Sydney’s

  • Spain
    Spring in Ibiza: enjoy a mellow Balearic beat before the crowds arrive

  • Readers' travel tips
    From wildlife in Andalucía to an alternative camino in Galicia: readers’ travel tips on unsung Spain

  • Local's guide to Australia
    A local’s guide to Yamba: ‘We’re surrounded by rivers, lakes, rock pools and beaches’

  • Italy holidays
    Hiking in southern Italy: myths, mountains and wild boar in Cilento

  • NSW
    A local’s guide to Broken Hill: ‘Chances are, someone will spark up a chat’

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Puzzles

  • San-Serriffe-special-report

    Crossword blog
    The Guardian’s April fool crossword explained – plus the other papers’ fooling

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,671

    • Quick crosswords
      Quick crossword No 17,144

    • Sudoku
      Sudoku 6,864 hard

    • Prize crosswords
      Prize crossword No 29,667

    • Killer sudoku
      Observer killer sudoku

    • Thomas Eaton
      The world’s largest comic convention is held in which city? The Saturday quiz

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? That’s numberwang!

The big picture

  • Dolly Parton does double denim

    We love: fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

    Get Dolly Parton’s denim look, M&S launch designer PJs, and Tommy Hilfiger sets sail
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