O r a n g e I s t h e N e w B l a c k ’s
YAE L S T O NE P L U S
Southern Food + Doomsday Preppers + North Korea + Zoë Kravitz + Hypnosis
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food stamps
Lisa Sorgini's mealtime mess looks a whole lot better than yours. A marriage of food and photos that live happily ever after. WORDS ANNIE SEBEL PHOTOS LISA SORGINI
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north korea
Author Suki Kim spent six months undercover, teaching the sons of North Korea's elite. We chat to her about the inner workings of one of the world's most secretive nations. WORDS JANA ROOSE PHOTOS GETTY IMAGES
Like most of the western world, Suki Kim is spellbound by the dark patch on the world map that is North Korea. But unlike most of us, her interest surpasses morbid curiosity – Kim was “born into that sorrow”, growing up in South Korea less than 20 years after the Korean War and subsequent division of the country, during which members of her family in the South were taken to North Korea and never seen again. Kim immigrated to the US when she was 13, and has spent much of her life researching and writing about the gulag nation. After gaining media access to North Korea several times, but leaving frustrated with the lack of real insight about the people living under the regime, she posed as a teacher and landed a job at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in the nation’s capital, teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s elite in a locked-down campus. Six months later, after the death of Kim Jong-il in 2011, Kim was forced to return to New York. There she wrote her latest book, Without You, There is No Us, a memoir of her time spent living with the future leaders of North Korea.
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You flew to North Korea in 2002 for Kim Jong-il’s 60th birthday celebrations. What was that like? I went to that and I ended up writing a long literary essay about the experience for The New York Review of Books. That’s the first time I went and 2002 comes soon after the worst famine of North Korea, which happened in the late 1990s – like 1997, 1998 – and about a tenth of the North Korean population died from famine, so 2002 was incredibly, shockingly bleak. It was just freezing, no heat, just nothing there, and I think I was very struck by the whole place. I was there for about eight days and it was entirely about the Great Leader – but their whole country is really a cult ideology. I was taken to, for example, a Kim Jong-il flower exhibition for hours and hours and what that involves is sort of – any organisation in that country makes a display booth using the flowers that are named after the Great Leader, that are invented for the Great Leader, it’s called the Kimjongilia, and it just was hours and hours
of different displays of Kimjongilia, and you get taken to events like that, which might sound fascinating, but I mean it’s only fascinating for the first ten minutes, after that it’s literally hours of these flowers – only one flower – that is about the Great Leader. Did Kim Jong-il attend? No he’s never there because he’s always busy – what they say is that their Dear Leader is just too busy overseeing ‘field guidance’, they call it, meaning looking over the people and their wellbeing, he’s “travelling tirelessly” so that’s why they’re doing the celebration of his birthday even though he [supposedly] doesn’t want it – that’s the story you always get. What was your impression of the people there; did you meet anyone particularly interesting? You know, you don’t because you can’t really meet anybody because you’re taken from the airport with a minder and taken everywhere and you’re not allowed to start a conversation with anybody. So I’ve been to North Korea, in the span of a decade, five times, and the final time I was living with my students and that is as far as one can get, because I lived with them. Up until then you just do not – it doesn’t matter who you meet because that’s who the government has decided for you to meet. I went there to cover the New York Philharmonic concert in Pyongyang and I remember, that was 2008, and I remember at some point they took us to the middle of a very busy street and said, “Go and talk to anybody.” And I did pull a young woman aside and I said, “What do you think about the New York Philharmonic?” and I asked her “What do you do?” and she said she was a music major college student. I mean what a coincidence, it’s perfect that the one person I get in the crowd happens to be a music expert and I’m here for a music concert. So there’s just nothing that is not scripted, it’s a different society. Why did you decide to go back to Pyongyang to teach, and how did you get the job? That was the only way I knew how. I think
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YEN FOOD
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Okonomi, New York Ocean perch cured with kombu seaweed
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71 Henne, Berlin
Cuc Gach Quán, Saigon
½ broiler chicken
Gua bao with prawns, pickles and XO
Lucky Pickle, Sydney
Cumulus Up, Melbourne
Pork belly, duck liver pâté, pickled carrot and daikon, cucumber, coriander, mayo & spicy sambal
Duck waffle
Brae, Victoria Calamari and pickles
Papi Chulo, Sydney Half rack pork ribs, wagyu brisket, chopped pork and pork belly platter, served with pickles and soft bread
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daisy PHOTOS JASON HENLEY FASHION JANA BARTOLO
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mystic mountain
Down the rabbit hole with these psychedelic wonders. PHOTOS ANNA POGOSSOVA
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A fresh palette
Fashion nestles up to design in Dina Broadhurst's carefully curated and calming home. PHOTOS JACQUI TURK
OUR HOUSE I live here as well as work from here, and my son Leo, who is nine, also shares the space with me part-time when he’s not with his dad. I have been here for a year but have lived in the suburb of Elizabeth Bay for around six years. It’s such a cosy little neighbourhood with a mix of creatives both young and old. Everyone seems to enjoy getting out and meeting others, frequenting the local coffee shops, restaurants and the hidden gem, Bear Park on the harbour’s edge. FAVOURITE My favourite room is the lounge room, it just gets the perfect wedge of light streaming through, where I can sit and read and get a breeze from my kitchen window to the balcony that catches little glimpses of boats on the water. And my couch is like a giant marshmallow so pretty hard to give up that spot! CHANGES I wish it had a bigger kitchen. I would love an oversized kitchen full of industrial gadgets to cook with. And a studio to paint and get messy in would be an absolute dream. TO CLEAN OR NOT TO CLEAN I'm messy but super clean in relation to dirt etc. I am a neat freak but once it's a little bit gone, then my care factor starts to wane and it can spiral out of control. So I try to keep on top of things.
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