Why we love cooking shows, but hate cookingMasterChef, Hell’s Kitchen, The Naked Chef… our appetite for TV cooking shows continues to grow unabated. So why are we spending increasingly less time in the kitchen ourselves? asks food activist Michael Pollan.
Reality check
Reality check: The hard sell is still to come
The Crikey Reality Check on what people actually read on news web sites has been showing a decline in interest for weeks now and nothing changed this morning. Coverage of the Coalition policy launch barely rated in the lists of the top five most read stories, writes Richard Farmer.
The Crikey reality check
There is one thing you can be sure about if you bothered to read all or most of those thousands upon thousands of words in your newspaper this morning about the formal beginning of the federal election campaign. You were one of a very small minority of Australians.
