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TROPIC • TRENDS

What’s hot and what’s not on
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Tropicropic’s radar right now.

WHAT’S HOT

BUYING LOCAL
This is the hottest trend of all: locals
supporting locals. It’s not a new
concept, but a global meltdown has
taught us just how critically important
it is to support locally owned small
businesses. From the butchers and
bakers to restaurants, bars and cafes,
from Rusty’s Markets to locally owned
media companies like ours, make a
point of directing your dollars to the
little guys. A small, conscious shift in
your spending makes a big difference
LEARNING TO COOK to our community. Don’t forget to
The Tropic crew loves food as much as
READING A BOOK we love books, so lately we’ve made sign up for the Tropic Local’s Card at
We love books. Always have, always a point of expanding our culinary tropiccard.com.au or turn to page 44-45
will… regardless of what’s happening horizons with more challenging recipes for all the details.
out there in the world. The printed and new ingredients. Make time to
pages of a good book are an antidote test out your skills with some of our
from endless scrolling on screens, they favourite chefs, including Yotam WHAT’S NOT
help focus the mind and they don’t need Ottolenghi, Rick Stein and
to be plugged in when the battery goes Kylie Kwang.
dead. We’re currently obsessed with
Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel MISINFORMATION,
Garcia Marquez, All The Lives We Never PANIC BUYING AND HOARDING
Lived by Anuradha Roy and The Subtle At our online news site TropicNow.
Art of Not Giving a F**k com.au, we’ve made a special
by Mark Manson. pledge to practise responsible
journalism when it comes to the
COVID-19 pandemic, and we hope
that’s been of some value to our
community in the face of so much
BEING KIND scare-mongering, misinformation
Random acts of kindness are the
and sensationalism. While we’re
kind of contagion we need. We like at it, raiding supermarket shelves
this suggestion from Nicky Jurd at PLAYING BOARD GAMES
and hoarding ridiculous amounts
Precedence: “A quick free thing we can Just like we do with a good book, of food and supplies was completely
do to help is to jump on Google and take a break from the devices and get unnecessary and it was ugly. The
leave your favourite local business a 5 stuck into an old-school board game.
vulnerable and the elderly in our
star review. Not only will this help them Outwit your friends and family and wonderful community suffered as
bounce back stronger when this wave be the champion of your domain,
a result. We salute the rest of us
passes but it will make a big difference whether it’s Monopoly, Battleship, who remained calm and sensible
to their spirit to know they still have Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble or dozens through it all.
so much support out there in the more. You could even jump online
community. Get out there and review and learn how to play chess. Your
your favourites!” brain will thank you for it.

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