Emma Joyce

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Emma Joyce

What’s a food memory you’d most like to forget? When we opened Moran’s restaurant and cafe in Potts Point in 1995, the doyenne of Australian food journalism, Joan Campbell, used to come in quite a bit. She was the food editor at Vogue and a tough old bird. I cooked a special dish I’d been working on for her – John Dory with caramelised figs. I asked her what the dish was like and she said: “That was fucking awful.” I remember being so deflated. I’m still scarred by it.

1 month ago | msn.com | Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Bec Kavanagh |Emma Joyce |Sian Cain |Katie Cunningham

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Bec Kavanagh |Emma Joyce |Sian Cain |Katie Cunningham

Signs of Damage by Diana ReidFiction, Ultimo, $34.99Diana Reid’s breakout debut, Love and Virtue, tapped the millennial zeitgeist from all angles: a campus novel exploring class, power and rape culture. Her fast follow-up, Seeing Other People, dealt in similar grey areas, starring two sisters in their 20s, both drawn to the same women. Signs of Damage is something of a departure: a thriller set in Europe across two time periods, as a family reckons with unknown trauma.

1 month ago | businessbusinessbusiness.com.au | Emma Joyce

Finding a separate location to work from home can be tough in today’s increasingly remote work world, particularly when productivity is hampered by household distractions. A lot of individuals don’t think that setting up a home office in their garage is a good idea. You can isolate yourself from the rest of the house and focus on work in a garage, which offers the seclusion and isolation required for concentrated work.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Emma Joyce

Consumer advocacy group Choice has done its homework on home and contents insurance, naming the Australian insurers with the most eye-watering price hikes in the past year. Where the average home insurance premium has gone up by 16% in the last 12 months, Kogan, RAC and Honey’s average prices have risen by more than 30%. “In the vast majority of cases, the price went up,” said Daniel Graham, an insurance expert at Choice.