What does a table mean?
You’ll never read advice column letters in the same way ever again
The Guardian has published eight new recipes from Team Ottolenghi and there’s some real winners in the pack (a very giant couscous cake! Middle Eastern mac and cheese! Chickpea cacio e pepe!)
This piece in the Atlantic is a bit (a lot) serious but poses many interesting discussion points on the question of bringing a new generation of children into the world right now
Who let the dogs out? A light-hearted lockdown story about how a weekly online trivia call turned into meeting and befriending one of the original Baha Men
Rolling Stone have released the 500 best songs of all time, updated for the first time since 2004
In what has to be one of our favourite moments of the week, the creators of a hugely popular and well-regarded Twitter account, CovidBaseAU, unmasked themselves yesterday as three teenagers, not the oldies everyone thought they were (and if you’re not already following their Twitter account, it’s without a doubt the best place online to get up-to-date Covid cases & vaccination numbers)
Just when we thought we couldn’t love Miriam Margoyles any more, she comes out with this absolute banger of an interview
What you’re like to live with, based on your star sign
Whether you’ll be cheering on the Dees or the Dogs this weekend or not interested in football at all, the grand final signals a big shift in the AFL: it's a premiership match between the two teams that pioneered women’s footy, and the first time both teams in a Grand Final are led by female presidents
Rejecting the myth of happily ever after
TikTok’s algorithm pulled Gabby Petito’s missing persons case to the forefront this week, and it’s been incredibly disconcerting to see the way in which woman’s murder (in a likely domestic violence situation) has been turned into entertainment in real time
Had no idea so many female body parts were named after men but of course they are
Other stuff we watched/lolled over this week… our new social media hero, the avocado test, someone should invest in this business idea, earthquakes and expensive wine cellars definitely don’t mix, are you a Tony or a Michael in a crisis?, what it’s like living as a black person in Japan, we know what we’re wearing this Halloween, Ryan Reynolds has jumped on the TikTok Grace Kelly trend (pls make it stop), the best 911 call ever, people who don’t drink coffee, life is allowed to be enjoyable, and this 2021 version of Summer Nights
