Blueprint For Living - Separate stories

What would food writer Hetty Lui McKinnon eat if it was her last day on Earth?Join Hetty as she explores her memories of her mother's simple yet profound ginger fried rice.

From ancient Roman aqueducts to futuristic vertical farms, how can we blend historical wisdom and cutting-edge technology to make our cities viable, vibrant and resilient places to live? We get some creative answers from, wait for it, an expert in parasites.

In recent years, the trend of social media food influencers has significantly shaped what we eat and how we eat it.

Architects have a grand history of designing excessive and ostentatious structures, often as a display of power, wealth or technical prowess.

In Object of Desire, designers, makers, creators and aesthetes of all persuasions talk about a special object in their life.

It's a line in the sand.

This week, Elizabeth David directs her invective against soup, Annie Smithers mounts a soup-positive defence, and we settle for Gratin Dauphinois, because cream smothered potatoes is something everyone can get behind.

This week, Besha Rodell, Chief Restaurant Critic, The Age/Good Food, lover of all things vintage, describes her particular obsession with vintage glassware.

A repudiation uniformity and embrace of community, former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Tim Entwisle shows us the possibility for the nature strip beyond alienation and agapanthus.

Andy Mason, bush regenerator, gardener, community activist, geographer, argues in favour of the re-invention of the suburban backyard as a site of sustainable production and ecological regeneration as well as a space for community building.