Australia’s culinary Beyoncé – almost always known by her mononym – Poh, is back in the MasterChef kitchen! Our cover star sits down with writer Maggie Zhou to talk whipping up laughs and dishing out advice to Back to Win contestants. Reflecting on how food helped her reconnect with culture, Poh is an artist in her element: “Food is the language that keeps surpassing all these other things, beyond language, beyond cultural values,” she tells us. “It’s like the thing that seems to be able to live on.”
More highlights in this edition:
What’s that smell? In this issue, we meet the artist bottling the scent of shared collective experiences, the doctor training people to regain their sense of smell, and the scientist studying the influence of scent on our everyday lives. Then, get to training your own olfactory system with our guide on How to Smell Good!
When bestselling author Hannah Kent left Adelaide for Iceland as a 17-year-old exchange student, she had no idea that the trip would provide the foundation for her bestselling novel, Burial Rites. Now, she’s returning to the place where it all began in her memoir Always Home, Always Homesick.
For singer-songwriter Bonnie “Prince” Billy, creativity is all about collaboration: “It’s how I feel I can engage with anything and everything.” On his latest album, The Purple Bird, he’s going where the music demands.
What would it take for the world to start listening to Deaf people? In 1988, this question sparked a civil rights movement at a Deaf university in Washington DC. We speak to the filmmakers revisiting this revolutionary student protest in new doco Deaf President Now!
In her Letter to My Younger Self, author and social philosopher Sarah Wilson tells us about how she finally found her yes.
As a child, Michael James loved baking with his grandmother. Now, he’s making no-fuss, zesty Lemon, Polenta and Raspberry Teacake for friends and family with his 10-year-old in Tastes Like Home.
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The Big Issue 30th Anniversary Edition 763 is choc full of
very interesting and informative articles.
I particularly liked vendor Marion's pictorial of Melbourne's
Queen Victoria Market and the CBD.
The next time you see a vendor do them
and yourself a favour. Buy a Big Issue magazine.
I particularly wanted to read the Rose Byrne piece who was featured on the front cover of The Big Issue, Edition 758.
But, more importantly I enjoyed many of the other features in this magazine, in particular, the archive piece on Heath Ledger, the inspiring piece from Deborah Lawrie with her letter to her younger self and Shaun Micallef personal discussion on AI. Thank you for serving up such an interesting magazine.
I must admit I purchased this edition as my son had an article printed in it. When I was looking for this edition I spoke to one of the lovely sellers in the city and he was so helpful looking to see if the article was in that edition.
Since then I have found out a lot more about the Big Issue and how they help disadvantaged Australians to become more independent and I think they are awesome.
Overall the magazine is very professionally set out and of course has some great articles. Love reading about the sellers
I love The Big Issue calendars and have been buying the every year I can since they started. I missed out locally this time so was very happy to be able to buy it online, thereby avoiding a whole year of FOMO
CALENDAR: I love the alternating pages, where month A is a cartoon by Andrew Weldon, and month B is a profile of a Big Issue seller.
FICTION EDITION: 12 short stories, including one by Trent Dalton (Boy Swallows Universe)
I've been buying the Big Issue for many years (though not 30). I live in Wollongong, I don't remember seeing a vendor here, but I have often bought a copy when I have to go to Sydney for work. I always enjoy reading it on the train on my way home, as well as feeling good that I have done something to help somebody to help themselves. Love your work, all the best for the next 30 years!
TBH…
As a ‘there at the start’ contributor, think it would’ve been good to show some of the ‘early’ editions and people who helped make TBI what it has become…
Behind the ‘sellers’ is a lot of pre-production content…