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Yumi Stynes and Melissa Kang have done it again with their new book ‘Welcome to Sex’. Open the book, then prepare to open a meaningful dialogue with your teens. I don’t mean to make sex awkward with our children, I really don’t. I want to be oh-so-cool, covering all the basic ‘what goes where’ information, …

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With Christmas coming, I thought it might be helpful to share some books I think would be good to give as gifts. Book Boy Junior is my nine-year-old brother, and these are some books I think would be good for him, or any other nine-year-old boy. Guess which one of these books I’m getting my …

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My husband is mad for Middle Eastern food. It’s his #1 choice and falafels are right up there with his all-time ‘last meal’ choices. So how could I resist Alice Zaslavsky’s fried green falafels? I know he can’t! Do you know Alice – aka Alice in Frames? That bundle of irresistible energy and nous from …

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The hardest part about making this list of my favourite family cookbooks is keeping it reined in. I love, love, love cookbooks. I love reading them, I love looking at them and, yes, I even love cooking from them. That’s the number one way a book can make it onto my list of favourite family …

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Last week I recounted how Lucy Tweed’s super greens pie unleased the green-eating monster in my son. Well, it’s fair to say that the sticky ribs monster never needs unleashing. Unless you’re a staunch vego, sticky ribs are always a bloody good idea. Let me just say that when I made these sticky ribs during …

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