The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written by Tacey Rychter, a writer and audience editor with the Australia bureau.

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Where in the world is Besha Rodell?

Some of you wrote in, noticing that our Australia Fare columnist has seemingly gone missing. Our food critic has been traveling the world on an enviable eating/writing project, but she’ll be back in business at the end of July.

In the meantime, I’m devoting this week’s Australia Letter to food — specifically, what to cook when it’s too cold to go do anything else.

I rang Dave Verheul, one of my favorite chefs and the force behind two Melbourne restaurants, Embla and Lesa, for some winter cooking inspiration.