FROM THE EDITOR Hello!
where I felt most realised and understood.” I think it speaks volumes. You can find this piece on page 14.
Thanks for picking up this issue of Debate! In this issue we focused on food, which is something that’s not only extremely polarising but also serves an amazing way of bringing people together. Something I didn’t expect from this issue was the emotion that food bought up for our writers. It was really special reading through everyone’s work and seeing how food has created these unbreakable links between themselves and their respective families. For the Food Issue, Debate’s Feature Writer, Rebecca Zhong looked at being alienated by the contents of her lunchbox and the Western trend of adopting ‘fusions’ of food from marginalised groups. Rebecca opens a really interesting window into how painful it can be to be criticised for what you eat, especially when said food is such a strong part of your identity. One of my favourite parts of this piece is the line “it was in the mouthfuls of my parents' and grandparents' cooking
On page 19, Jessy Thurston has all the tips around post drinking eats and on page 24, one of our regular contributors, James Tapp, talks everything tea related. In our news section, we looked where AUT is spending the increases to the Student Services fee, the coronavirus travel ban and AUT’s Mayoral Drive building project. And it wouldn’t be the food issue without a recipe from our long-standing food columnist, Melissa Koh. In fact, we’ve got three recipes from her in this issue, all relating to how to jazz up the humble 2-minute noodle. Catch you on stands in a few weeks! Ben
