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Elizabeth Quinn

Elizabeth Quinn is a freelance writer and reviewer, based in Melbourne.

June 2024

  • Woman holding bouquet and wine bottle while visiting friends<br>Young woman holding bouquet and wine bottle while visiting friends for dinner party

    Always bring something and know when to leave: a freeloader’s guide to being the perfect dinner guest

    With a few simple moves, being a good guest is a skill anyone can acquire. Here are five tips to maximise the odds of a return invite

May 2024

  • Elizabeth Quinn with her mother and granddaughter

    I’m a grandmother now, but this Mother’s Day I will miss my mum as keenly as any child

    Elizabeth Quinn benefited from more than 60 years of her mother’s wit and wisdom. But when she died at 91, Quinn was unprepared for the role of principal griever

April 2024

  • A drawer full of kitchen utensils

    Eight unsung kitchen tools every home cook should own: ‘You’ll wonder how you lived without them’

    Elizabeth Quinn raids her cutlery drawer for the indispensable – but underrated – utensils that make cooking a breeze

March 2024

  • Dick York, Erin Murphy and Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewitched in 1966

    Stream team
    Bewitched: an entrancing 60s sitcom that brought magic to the small screen

  • man and girl reading book

    The magic of audiobooks? Deep down, we still long to be read to

    Elizabeth Quinn
  • Woman looking out of window on rainy day. Conept image; female depression, domestic abuse, self isolation, quarantine, Coronavirus,<br>2B7JCT1 Woman looking out of window on rainy day. Conept image; female depression, domestic abuse, self isolation, quarantine, Coronavirus,

    We should all have the right to die on our own terms – current assisted-dying laws deny this to people with dementia

    Elizabeth Quinn
  • Topview of a ceramic dish filled with cheese gougères aka French cheese puffs.

    How to host apéro: drinks, great chat and a French cheese puff recipe

December 2023

  • Family Christmas meal with home cooked food being served at dining table, traditional holly with berries garnishing roasted vegetables, Christmas cracker on table with wine and candles

    Calm Christmas countdown
    Clean the cutlery, perfect your roast potatoes and accept help washing up: how to host Christmas with two days to go

    In the final part of her calm Christmas countdown series, Elizabeth Quinn guides you through the i dotting and t-crossing – and shares time and space saving roasting tips
  • Elizabeth Quinn and her mother with a pot of ‘Gran's beans’

    The first Christmas without Mum, we felt her absence in the small details – no one makes beans like her

    Last year at Elizabeth Quinn’s Christmas, the green beans were served whole, al dente and bright green. They were nothing like ‘Gran’s beans’

    • Calm Christmas countdown
      Plan the seating, test new recipes, and put this salad on the menu: how to host Christmas with one week to go

    • Calm Christmas countdown
      Plan your menu, delegate to guests and make these gluten-free crispbreads: how to host Christmas with two weeks to go

    • Calm Christmas countdown
      Count your cutlery, clean the dishwasher and freeze these soufflés: how to host Christmas with three weeks to go

December 2022

  • A postman on a motorbike delivers letters in Brisbane.

    Post haste for cut-off dates: how to make sure your packages arrive on time for Christmas

    Elizabeth Quinn
    After a year of watching parcels disappear into a postal black hole, Elizabeth Quinn shares her hard-learned strategies for smoother deliveries

November 2022

  • A vineyard in Burgundy, France

    Go less frequently, stay longer: how I learned to embrace slow travel

    Elizabeth Quinn
    The antithesis of whistle-stop world tours, single-destination holidays offer sustenance and sustainability

August 2022

  • house with sign that says 'slow point' in front of it

    I put my faith in RBA predictions. I’ll live with the financial consequences for the rest of my life

    Elizabeth Quinn
    Never buy before you sell – or face an financially uncertain retirement after a lifetime of avoiding risks

January 2022

  • Joanne Froggatt and Eddie Marsan in Still Life

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    Still Life: 2013’s big-hearted gem is a salute to all the lonely people

    Eddie Marsan is a revelation in this unpretentious British film about a council worker who delivers posthumous dignity to those who die alone

December 2021

  • Lenny Henry as Josephus and Alan Cumming as Bernard Bottle in Bernard and the Genie

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    Bernard and the Genie: 1991 Richard Curtis sleeper is a Christmas cracker

    Lenny Henry, Rowan Atkinson and Alan Cumming star in a fantasy-comedy that’s a rollicking tale of good versus evil

November 2021

  • Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude

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    Harold and Maude: 50 years on, Hal Ashby’s box-office bomb is a black comedy classic

    This eccentric 70s romcom continues to charm with its dark humour and undercurrent of optimism

August 2021

  • Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell – In Bruges

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    In Bruges: on unexpected holiday with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson’s hitmen

  • Post it notes on white wall, list of things to do when writing your will.

    Will power: preparing for my death has provided me with way more entertainment than is seemly

    Elizabeth Quinn
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