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FANTA PANTS GINGA RANGA AGENT AMBER BONFIRE CONTENTS BURNADETTE FIREBALL REDWOOD GINGER TOMATO TOP GINGER MINGE CRUTCH 08 Lily Cole Does The Impossible – Lily and a social enterprise that grants wishes for free. 10 The Spice Girls GINGERS DON’T HAVE SOULS FOT — A speed date with Sri Lanka. 22 How To Shop In The Jungle – The original market garden. CHERRY GROUNDSKEEPER WILLIE 24 Things We Like — Good stuff. CHEESEBALL BACKDRAFT FLAME 26 This Is The Story Of Johnny Rotten – John Lydon’s book ‘Anger Is An Energy’ 28 Orpheus Toward Manukau

LILY COLE LILY REDWOOD BURNADETTE TIGGER — Whitney Bedford’s shipwreck.

Her story, page 08 Her story, 30 So Hot Right Now – Sri Lankan Street Food. FORANGE GINGUS KHAN RUSTY seeds from Brazil’s Achiote Tree. seeds from Brazil’s Achiote 32 Where Did She Come From? – The story of Gingerella. demonstrates makeup ‘rainforest style’ using 37 What Makes A Burger Honest GARFIELD ANIMAL GINGER NUTS – Honest Burgers in , that’s what. 38 Ladies In Red EL GINGERO PUMPKIN FIREBALLS – Stephen Marr & Karen Inderbitzen-Waller’s femme fatales. 40 Fire Ball — Cooper, Nashville’s dynamite soul singer. COPPER CRUTCH RUST FURNACE 42 Food Porn – Allegra McEvedy and Warren Elwin cooking with ginger. 44 Mother Nature’s Magic Healer TOMATO TOP ALHAMBRA BLUEY — Ginger and its cures. 46 Red Hot – Thomas Knight smashes ginger . FLAMING GOLDILOCKS REDHEAD 48 Cocktails — Quick and quaffable. RONALD MCDONALD FRECKLITIS 52 Thirst Aid — The Karma Cola Foundation. GINGER NINJA STOP SIGN JAFFA Photography by SKY RAINFOREST RESCUE RAINFOREST SKY GINGERELLA GINGERELLA What Goes Around Comes Around

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IF YOU STAND OUT IN A CROWD WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK. WE MAY ONLY BE A FIZZY DRINK, BUT WHEN WE DECIDED TO CALL OUR GINGER ALE GINGERELLA WE KNEW WE COULDN’T BE SHY ABOUT OUR MISSION TO MAKE THE BEST ORGANIC AND FAIRTRADE GINGER FIZZ EVER.

ALONG THE WAY WE’VE MET A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST AS EXCITED ABOUT GINGER. WHETHER IT BE THE ROOTS OF THEIR RED OR THE GINGER ROOT THAT FLAVOURS OUR FAVOURITE CUISINE.

GINGER RULES

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LILY COLE DOES THE IMPOSSIBLE

World peace may be the imagined future of A force for good is the ethos behind most every beauty queen, but rarely do dreams ventures she turns her attention to. At 17, she was of saving our world ring as true as they do championing jewellery made from ostrich eggs by when Lily Cole gets involved. Botswana Kalahari bushmen. “I was inspired by the idea of empowering communities through their From the cover of Vogue at 16 to saving a billion skills and work, rather than just relying on charity trees in the Amazon Rainforest at 26; Lily is to fix problems.” literally a force of nature. Not content with these successes, she is also working with a team of The project was the first example of a trade, not Nobel-prize winning economists to create a gift- aid, initiative Lily did and it turns out that a nod giving site called Impossible. to ostrich egg jewellery from a supermodel has a big impact in London design circles. That’s Lily’s magic. Making the impossible possible. Taking on monster challenges and seeing them In 2009, the year she filmedThe Imaginarium through. From working as a supermodel, then of Doctor Parnassus with the late Heath Ledger, actress, to then graduating from Cambridge with she also began her mission to raise awareness double honours in Art History, she uses her fame about the devastating impact of deforestation on to champion some hefty issues. Deforestation. Amazon rainforests. Consumerism. Greed. Heading up SKY, an initiative to save one billion Words by ANGELAWords BARNETT Like the characters she portrays in her films trees through WWF (the World Wide Fund for (Snow White and the Huntsman, The Moth Diaries, Nature) she produced a documentary, wrote The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) there is a articles and campaigned hard. While visiting the fantasticalness to her life. While she made a fortune rainforest in Brazil a couple of years ago, Lily being a muse for fashion photographers like had the idea for Veja trainers, with soles made Jürgen Teller, she’s not afraid to poke holes in the from rubber trees. The idea is a smart solution industry that made her famous. for farmers; instead of chopping down trees, it encourages them to find alternate ways to use Collaborating with another fashionable redhead, produce from the rainforest, like rubber, brazil nuts Vivienne Westwood, they created a short film last and acacia berries, which, fortunately, have made year, The Red Shoes, showing the contradiction it onto the hot list of celebrity cleansing diets lately. between the beauty of clothes and the waste around trends and seasons. Then there’s her social enterprise, Impossible, a growing force for good. As a gifting site, it runs “When you clean up supply chains and create like a social network, where people help each positive social and environmental impact, then other out by granting ‘wishes’ for free. No strings business is a real force for good in the world,” attached. No money passes hands. And the only says Lily. currency is an online ‘thank you.’

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IT’S BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF ‘WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.’ YOU DO THIS FOR ME AND TRUST THAT IN TURN, I WILL DO SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE ELSE, AND EVENTUALLY WHEN YOU NEED SOMETHING, A GIFT WILL COME BACK TO YOU.

Now spanning 73 countries, the range of wishes are at Google’s Creative Lab in Sydney; Chelsea Clinton varied and surprising, from “I need Spanish-English and with financial backing from Kwamecorp. translation with my immigration papers”, to “I need some stories to practice my cartoon drawing”, and “I While Lily doesn’t think of herself as a role model and need a warm blanket for my grandmother in Lisbon.” likes to live her life by her own integrity, she admits “I might be a positive influence.” Her influential circles Doing something as a gift as opposed to an have certainly helped plug Impossible, with Sir Paul exchange, creates a subtle bond between the two McCartney holding music classes for members and parties, she explains. “The mere act of giving Alain de Botton discussing it in his School of Life, releases dopamine; it makes you feel better and but Lily hopes to eventually extract her fame away. immediately you create a relationship with the person you’ve given something to.” “My profile has helped attract a lot of media attention, but that can be a double edged sword. Impossible was developed after Lily visited refugee Ultimately Impossible needs to stand on its own camps on the Thailand-Burma border in 2010. As two feet without me attached to its image. I think a firm believer in fairness and freedom, she knew this is starting to happen.” that freedom was something where the web could offer huge potential. “It enables whole new social Lily’s vision for the site is that eventually people will dialogues and ideas to exist and function, in ways not only gift but purchase products. “We created a never before thought possible.” The concept marketplace (not.impossible.com) for products made sounds easy to mock. Too idealistic. Too whimsical. in responsible ways, with powerful stories behind Totally impossible. them. It’s e-commerce meets product journalism,” says Lily. “The perfect fit for your Karma Cola.” But, Impossible might be onto something. According to the British Government, the gift Such story driven items are also available in the economy – things people do for free – is recently opened Impossible store, in London, which bigger than GDP. It’s just that it’s not usually sells hats, hand knitted by an army of grandmothers measured or given a value. across the UK, Lily’s Veja trainers made from wild Born in the small English town of Torquay to an was voted fourth sexiest redhead in the world LEFT rubber, organic cotton sourced from the Amazon and Modelling her Veja shoes made artist and a boat builder and raised in London, Lily alongside Prince Harry in 2010. Modelling got the from wild rubber from the There were some negative or cynical responses ceramic, hand-cast speakers from Cornwall. grew up with a mum who has a very strong social young beauty through her A-levels and university Amazon rainforest. initially, admits Lily, but that is vastly overshadowed conscience, which she’s sure had an effect on her. years, but it also opened her large eyes to a wider now by the very positive reaction. “Indeed, the Lily is a big believer in the power consumers have RIGHT world, one that wasn’t filled with glamour but Lily poses with Brazil’s sacred fact that so many people reacted positively and through purchasing. “If they [consumers] knew more She was bullied, “a bit” for having red hair and very real problems. Problems she felt empowered ‘Queen of the Forest’, supportively to the idea is the only reason it has about the implications of their purchasing decisions - the inspiration behind admits - “It was something I struggled with when enough to do something about. James Cameron’s infamous come this far.” the impact on the environment, the conditions for the I was younger, so I always saw it as a bad thing... tree in Avatar. farmer – they might choose differently,” she says. but then over time I came to realise that what For a young woman who posed Lolita style for sky.com/rainforestrescue Plus the site has attracted some very successful makes people different (my hair for me), are our French Playboy, setting those erudite tongues at impossible.com backers like Jimmy , the founder of one of Exploring economic structures has been a big strengths and now I LOVE having red hair!” Cambridge wagging, Lily Cole has definitely gone the most extraordinary gift economies, Wikipedia; fascination in her mind. “Economics may be the Photography by from supermodel to superwoman. SKY RAINFOREST RESCUE Professor Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize- most common language and religion of our world,” Along with her mysterious features, red hair was winning economist; Tom Uglow, creative director she adds. a point of difference for the naturally tall Lily. She

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THE SPICE GIRLS

Karma Cola makes a pilgrimage to a jungle Association of Sri Lanka. And the secret to the that is a garden, a pharmacy and a grocery health and flavour of their produce, which is off store. Our cofounder Simon Coley goes on a the charts, is … nothing. speed date with Sri Lanka, visits a tooth and gets a lesson in horticultural history. They add nothing more into their forest garden other than the sun, rain and the natural life-cycle Resting ten centimetres under some of the most of flora and fauna. Provided by nature, these fertile soil in the world is a nugget of culinary simple ingredients all contribute to the rich tropical and apothecary . It’s the Asian ginger we use soil in which they grow their produce. They have to make a ginger ale we call Gingerella. a philosophy that the rainforest is a garden, and like any other, if it’s well tended, it will grow an This ginger is one of a supermarket aisle of abundance of food without the need for anything ingredients growing in the rainforests of the Sri but the elements and the natural fertiliser of the Lankan highlands and tended by Tilak, Karuna and jungle. The quality and taste of their produce proves Thilanka Wijesinghe. Although, walking through this philosophy correct. their jungle garden is the complete opposite of a visit to a supermarket. Swap the fluorescent Long before the organics movement and whole lighting for sunlight filtered through the rainforest food grocery stores, Sri Lanka was farming canopy, the smell of worn lino for pungent jungle, organically. Small holdings, like the Wijesinghes, spices and tropical fruit, and the canned muzak for are everywhere. We source the vanilla and ginger insects and birdsong. used in our drinks from these family farms and during my tour of our producers the more I saw The only familiar things are the names of the more impressed I was by their skill at coaxing ingredients - there’s coffee and tea bushes, delicious produce from the jungle. turmeric, cardamon trees, coconut palms, palm oil palms, black pepper, green pepper, cocoa, Speed dating cloves, nutmeg, mace, curry leaf, durian, papaya and pineapple. I counted over 25 varieties of I’m in Sri Lanka to see the plants Karma Cola spice, fruit, nuts, berries, leaves, roots and bark. uses to make our drinks and meet the people who grow them. With just 72 hours to get from Sri All are essential to Sri Lankan cuisine and health, Lanka’s capital, Colombo to the central highlands and all grow a short walk from the Wijesinghe in Kandy, meet the gardeners, taste their produce family bungalow in Kandy’s rainforest. Tilak and and see how it’s harvested, washed, cut and his spice girls - Karuna and Thilanka, harvest dried for market as well as dive into as much of the this produce and take it to market, along with local culture as possible. I’m on a kind of a speed

Thilanka and Karuna Wijesinghe at home in their at Wijesinghe and Karuna Thilanka rainforest. of the Matale on the edge bungalow other members of the Forest Garden Growers date with a country.

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Like good planets, good umbrellas are hard to find. On the Tilak Wijesinghe has been tending his families streets of Kandy this man is taking good care of his. rainforest garden for 15 years. Ginger in it’s native jungle habitat above the ground, the ground, above jungle habitat in it’s native Ginger dug up and washed. below the ground,

A small stick from the frond of a nearby coconut of a nearby the frond from stick A small vines. vanilla the flowers on palm is used to pollinate GINGERELLA if garden, any and like is a garden “The rainforest an abundance of food grow will tended, it is well sunshine and but rain, anything without the need for of the jungle.” fertiliser the natural GINGERELLA 16 What Goes Around Comes Around 17

The first thing I notice is that, up close, Sri Lanka Saved from the ashes of his sandalwood pyre, it has a flag like an All Black Haka. A lion holding was protected through the generations by kings. a sword. There are a lot of brightly coloured flags It was also the cause of wars, as enemies of those all over Sri Lanka, but none say “we’re-going-to kings thought people who worshipped this tooth annihilate-you” quite as succinctly as the national were crazy. flag. It made me wonder if this was some kind of warning. Eventually the tooth made its way to Sri Lanka, where Buddha declared his religion would be safe I shouldn’t worry. It would be unlikely to see a lion for 5000 years. Two and a half thousand years later, or a person waving a sword in anger today, as it’s it’s evident Buddha could see into the future. Poya - an auspicious day for the Buddhists who make up 70 percent of Sri Lankans. Poya means Thousands of people, mostly Buddhists, are chanting, full moon, and every full moon that doesn’t fall on quietly swaying and wafting incense, having made the a weekend is a public holiday. Today is a Friday, pilgrimage to be blessed by this special tooth. In the which could explain why everyone looks so happy. light of the full moon, Buddha and his remaining tooth still work their magic. Driving inland from Columbo, through the hills to Kandy, the traffic eventually merges into a sea of Next morning the sun rises over Kandy and Buddha people dressed in white and slowly making their is still there. Hovering above the city on the fringe way towards a temple, by the lake at the centre of of the rainforest is a huge, white, cross-legged the town. Bahiravakanda Buddha watching over the city and the road that winds deeper into the central highlands. Buddha’s tooth Travel for another hour or so along this road, in the The Temple of the Tooth, Sri Dalada Maligawa, is direction of Matale, and the route gradually narrows, the home of the most important tooth in Sri Lanka, and the verge becomes jungle as we approach the the relic of the Buddha’s left canine. Wijesinghe’s farm.

The Buddhists aren’t the only ones praying this Friday night. In the nearby Hindu temple there’s something for all the family. Full moon over the Buddhist Temple of the Tooth in Kandy. The best night night The best in Kandy. Tooth of the Temple the Buddhist moon over Full of the month to show some devotion.

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This is where Karuna Wijesinghe moved to live with minimum price, Fairtrade enables them to pool her husband, Tilak, fifteen years ago. They’ve raised resources to improve their farms and communities. their family here, on four acres of rainforest garden. Since Karma Cola began trading with Sri Lankan Like any farm, there’s always something to do. ginger and vanilla farmers, they’ve been able to Tilak and Karuna rise at 4.30 am. Tilak starts work put the Fairtrade premium (that they earn on top in the home garden, just outside their bungalow, of the price of produce) to good use buying better while Karuna begins the day preparing food for the equipment and helping out with funeral grants. family and getting Thilanka and her nine-year-old brother ready for school. They catch a bus on the I’m curious as to why funeral grants would be high road we’ve just driven in on. The ride to school up the list. Tilak explains that for Buddhists, funerals takes about an hour. are vitally important for both the living and the departed. They are the transition from this life to the The food Karuna cooks is mainly vegetarian, with next; where the karmic forces of a lifetime are tallied the produce grown only steps away. Occasionally up. Naturally, it’s important to help family members they eat fish from the market or chicken. There are through their reincarnation. a few chickens scratching around the house. The ones that aren’t laying are destined for the pot. Funerals can last up to 49 days, with prayers, offerings and assemblies of monks accompanied Their lives haven’t always been quite this by chanting, reciting and finally cremation. Then, straightforward. Relying on the sale of produce three months after the funeral, alms-giving from their forest garden to eke out a living is as (sanghika dana) is practiced, in case the recently changeable as the weather. deceased has ended up as a preta or hungry ghost forever famished or worse, depraved. The price of spice All of this takes people away from tending their The Wijesinghes, like many other farmers, can only crops but cultivation demands daily toil. So help, make enough money to survive if they’re able to in the form of these funeral grants, is a necessity. sell relatively small quantities of a large variety It’s like an insurance policy to compensate for of produce. They grow over 30 different tropical the time you are unable to work due to foods, spices and medicines. Finding markets unforeseen circumstances. for all these products isn’t easy and, because of the abundance of produce in the area, it’s not Productive gardens, like those in the Kandy forest, always possible to make enough money to cover are probably the world’s oldest form of land use the cost of production for the local market. and the most resilient agro-ecosystem. They originated in prehistoric times along jungle-clad To consistently sell their harvest, for a fair price, river banks and in the wet foothills of monsoon requires a high degree of collaboration and regions. During the gradual process of families organisation. That’s where the Sri Lankan improving their immediate environment, useful Rainforest Garden Growers Association and treeand vine species were identified, protected the Fairtrade Foundation come in. and improved, whilst undesirable species were eliminated. Eventually superior species were Comprised of some 130 small farms, the selected and incorporated into he gardens. association enables farmers, like the Wijesinghes, to join together with the support of the Fairtrade This tradition of forest gardening and continuous Foundation and bargain for better prices, by horticultural improvement using natural resources finding dependable markets for their produce. is alive in Tilak and Karuna’s garden. Testament Along with the security of knowing that what they to this is their ginger. supply will be bought at a pre-negotiated,

Thilanka, daughter of forest garden farmers Tilak and Karuna Wijesinghe, in the jungle outside the family bungalow.

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YOU CAN SMELL IT AS YOU DIG THROUGH THE RICH WET SOIL, AND WHEN YOU WASH OFF THE DIRT, AND BREAK THE ROOT, YOU CAN FEEL ITS ASTRINGENCY UNDER YOUR FINGERNAILS. IT SMELLS LIKE IT COULD CURE YOU; AND IT CAN.

Ginger is a natural antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, landscape and these rainforests could be the it boosts the immune system, quelling nausea, closest thing we have to our idea of an original fighting colds and gas. Thanks to Tilak and Karuna’s Garden of Eden. Forest gardeners don’t put magical jungle-garden, cooked, brewed as tea or anything more into their productive gardens than made into a fizzy drink, their ginger tastes amazing. what naturally occurs here, yet they have an abundant harvest. Tea ladies resting after carrying freshly carrying freshly after ladies resting Tea to market. leaves bundles of tea picked No birds without bees The juicy knuckles of ginger root dug from the In The Silent Spring, the book that launched bottom of the rainforest in Matale thrive in the the modern organic movement, Rachel Carson cacophony of life. The noise is defiant punk reasons that the intensified, industrialised rock – birds screeching, insects chattering, frogs agriculture of the last half of the 20th century has chirping and all sorts of other animals going about been silencing the very things that help plants their business. thrive; the birds and the bees. The flora and fauna, the sun, the rain and the In her fable that introduces this idea, the hedgerows nutrients coursing from photosynthesis in the around fields cultivated with chemicals and forest’s canopy, down to the rich soil that forms machines are silent. There’s no birdsong, because its foundations, forever replenish the cycle of life. there are no insects for birds to eat. There are no insects because there are no weeds for them to Sadly, the biodiversity of rainforests like these hide and forage in. There are no weeds, because is threatened by our insatiable appetite for they are considered enemies of productivity and cheaper food, grown on a massive scale. Jungles are sprayed with herbicide. In the same way the are cleared to make way for cattle farms, palm insects, that eat more than their fair share of crops, oil plantations and mono-cultures of high are considered pests and attacked with pesticide. energy-yielding biomass like sugar cane to convert into biofuel. “It took hundreds of millions of years to produce the life that now inhabits earth - aeons of time in How can we tear down this millennia-old system which that developing, evolving and diversifying life that continues to prove itself, to grow only one reached a state of adjustment and balance with crop, without ultimately compromising both the its surroundings. “Given time, not in years but in crop and the people we’re growing it for? millennia, life adjusts and a balance is reached. At the factory where The Forest Garden Growers Time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern Wouldn’t it be better to follow Tilak, Karuna and Association process produce, they sort the wood from world there is no time.” Thilanka and the Forest Gardeners Associations cinnamon bark. Its a fragrant place to work. example by tending biodiverse gardens that grow But there may be an answer enough for everyone in the food chain. Food grown this way tastes so much better. And, it’s In Sri Lanka, I’ve travelled through time. The much more pleasant than pushing a trolley around people here are as diverse as the plants and the the bright lights of an incandescent supermarket.

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1. Ginger 12. Curry Leaf 13. Propagation Garden 2. Star Fruit’s benefits range from 14. Pineapple eviction to sleeping. Brazilian folk medicine uses star fruit juice as a 15. Durian Trees produce a tropical fruit diuretic or expectorant (getting that is high in energy, minerals, vitamins undesirables out of the body like and fibre, making it a handy natural mucus). The leaves and fruit are placed laxative, as well as being a good honest on the temples to ease headaches antioxidant. It contains a third of the and the powdered seeds are said to recommended daily vitamin-C intake too. have a sedative effect. 6 7 8 9 10 16. Betel Husk 3. Papaya trees were worshipped by the Mayans, calling them the ‘Tree of 17. Betel Trees produce a nut that Life’. The leaves, seeds and milk of is as crazy as Tim Burton’s character papaya trees are used to kill intestinal Beetlejuice. Just like tobacco and worms and parasites, so you could caffeine, the betel nut is chewed to also call them ‘Leaves of Death’. get a buzz - it increases stamina, alertness and gives that ultimate high 4. Cocoa Pod — cocoa beans are - euphoria. It also causes salivation, mother nature’s anti-depressant. They which helps digestion. contain dopamine, phenylethylamine (PEA) and serotonin, which all promote 18. Ambarella fruit juice is very good positive moods and mental health. at combating fevers and soothing 11 12 13 14 15 Plus the beans are a potent antioxidant - spiteful ulcers. three times stronger than green tea. 19. Vanilla Pods 5. Cardamom is really a ‘super spice’ because its benefits range from 20. Vanilla not only excites the nostrils, cholesterol control to an asphrodisiac its active compound, vanillin, is a mild and everything in between: improving antioxidant which kicks out free radicals blood circulation, curing dental diseases from the body. and cystitis. If it’s been used a bit too 21. Flower Stamen enthusiastically as an aphrodisiac, then 22. Nutmeg Drying cardomom is good, apparently, for curing gonorrhea too. 23. Chilli from the capsaicin group, is considered an effective topical analgesic 16 17 18 19 20 6. Nutmeg has always been a popular to manage burning pain. spice, a friend with benefits in the kitchen, as it’s a tummy soother, skin 24. Green Pepper Drying detoxifier, brain booster and blood lover. 25. Black Pepper Drying 7. Nutmeg Tree 26. Coconuts are often thought of as a nut, or a fruit, but these hairy mounds 8. Coffee is not only the worlds most are actually the seed of the tree. Able popular wake up call, it’s said to to stabilise blood sugar, heal wounds, improve energy levels and increase hydrate and tame unruly hair, coconut blood flow to the heart. It’s not too has also been used to replace blood shabby on the taste buds either. plasma in an emergency. 9. Sour Banana 21 22 23 24 25 27. Coconut Flower is used for firewood 10. Clove Buds are widely recognised 28. Coconut Husk all over the world for their medicinal 29. Home Garden and culinary talents. Used as a local anasthetic, its also a handy anti-septic, 30. Soursop fruit, often called anti-flatulent and rubefacient (for guanábana, looks a bit like a Granny warming and soothing). Smith apple crossed with a pineapple on steroids, and is used in traditional 11. Tumeric not only stains sauces healing for stomach upsets, fevers and and hands, its health benefits have helping babies sleep. strong staying powers as it is such a strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory. It’s another ‘super spice’. 26 27 28 29 30 24 What Goes Around Comes Around 25

THINGS WE

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We may call them smart, but phone We like We Walk The Line because, production is not kind to the environment aside from bastardising the title of one of

or the African countries who produce the best Johnny Cash songs, they provide the minerals needed to make them. a second chance to the homeless and Introducing the Fairphone, made with ex-offenders in London by equipping conflict-free tin and tantalum, with a them with business and barista skills so

rootable operating system (we’re not sure they can run their own coffee carts. what this is, but it sounds good), wewalktheline.org fair welfare, replaceable batteries and e-waste programmes. Totally fair.

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THIS IS THE STORY OF JONNY ROTTEN

He was accused of treason for singing an original hotwire to my head, because of the things I did version of ‘God Save The Queen’ in 1977. He and said’, are a reference to the torture techniques turned down an MBE, and he refused to attend that the apartheid government was using out the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony when there. Insufferable. — 1976 he, and fellow Sex Pistols were inducted into the museum calling it “a piss stain”. John Lydon may So it’s saying, ‘there is always hope’, and that well have been Britain’s angriest young man. you don’t always have to resort to violence to resolve an issue. Anger doesn’t necessarily His green hair and riotous fashion sense first equate directly to violence. Violence very rarely /Rex USA ­ attracted the attention of Malcolm McLaren resolves anything. when young John was invited to lead the punk band, Sex Pistols, into anarchic history. Although In , they eventually found a relatively they only produced four singles and the one peaceful way out. Using that supposedly negative album, Never Mind the Bollocks, the Sex Pistols energy called anger, it can take just one positive left a lot more than a piss stain on popular music. move to change things for the better.

John’s songs still command our attention and When I came to record the song properly, the the repertoire of his long-standing band, Public producer and I were arguing all the time, as we Image Ltd (PIL), includes the eponymous title always tend to do, but sometimes the arguing of his recent biography Anger is An Energy. actually helps; it feeds in.

Here’s an excerpt: Anger is an energy. Unstoppable RAY STEVENSONPhotographed by RAY Anger is an energy. It really bloody is. It’s possibly When I sing it onstage nowadays, it’s very emotional the most powerful one-liner I’ve ever come up with. for me, because there’s such a connection with When I was writing the Public Image Ltd song the audience. I’ll get these melodramatic responses, ‘Rise’, I didn’t quite realise the emotional impact that people are bang in empathy with the actual that it would have on me, or anyone who’s ever statement, and the point and the purpose of the heard it since. song. They fully understand it, and they share it back with me. Now, that takes your breath away. Often, I wrote it in an almost throwaway fashion, off the I can forget my place in the song. I’m so impressed top of my head, pretty much when I was about to listening to the audience singing it, that they take sing the whole song for the first time. It’s a tough, over. For me, that’s complete success: something spontaneous idea. really generous has been understood by everybody in the building. Rise looked at the context of South Africa under apartheid. I’d been watching these horrendous Anger is the root core of news reports on CNN, and so lines like ‘they put a why I write songs

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So Hot Right Now

Simon Coley discovers what the streets of fermented rice flour. It’s glossy and it stretches all Sri Lanka have to offer a hungry traveller. the way from his hand to the hotplate with each skilled, nonchalant toss. Sometimes hoppers are Chop-chop. On the last night of my Sri Lankan cooked in a rounded , but he’s throwing the tour, my host and guide to Colombo told me about dough like a pizza straight onto his hotplate and a combination of fried meat and chopped roti that when it bubbles and browns, he flips it and breaks plays a similar role to that of a kebab on the way an egg over before folding the finished pancake home from the pub, after drinking six pints of lager. egg parcel. The combination of crispy skin and Not so much comfort food, more a way of avoiding eggy centre doesn’t touch the sides. the discomfort of a hangover and cure a raging appetite. After a night seeing Colombo’s highlights, Not quite full yet, time to try the dal. The ultimate I’m hungry. hippy food and not much more than seasoned lentil stew, dal is delicious. And it’s simple to No matter where you are in Sri Lanka, there are prepare. The standard recipe begins with boiling roadside restaurants that look a lot like the lentils in water, perhaps with some turmeric and one in these pictures. They serve street food that, salt, and then sprinkling a garnish, or chaunk, on compared to fast food chains, tastes like fine top. Translated as ‘tempering,’ chaunk is flash dining. In a country bursting with organically grown frying a mix of whole spices like cloves, chillis and spices, fresh vegetables, fish and meat with coriander seeds, then mixed with minced ginger, a fusion of cultures thrown in, it’s not surprising. garlic, and onion. Except in this instance there was no chaunk. Worried the dal might be as bland as a Chop-chop. Over a hotplate the chef of this tiny bowl of lentils it was surprisingly garlicky and silky. road side restaurant is chopping. The percussion Accompanied with plain roti made from the same of his two blunt metal blades on the sheet steel dough as the hoppers, it’s sensational. of his skillet is strangely calming and the smell of the stuff he’s chopping, and gently caramelising Room for one more. String hoppers, idiyappa between chops of his blade on the heat of his or nooputt are made from a hot-water dough of hotplate, is mouth watering. rice flour pressed in circlets from a string mould onto little wicker mats, then steamed. They’re Chopped roti AKA kottu is a spicy Sri Lankan served with coconut gratings and milk. Light, stir-fry of shredded roti bread and vegetables lacy, sublime and with a side order of sambol my mixed with egg, beef, chicken or cheese. First up tastebuds are satiated. on this street food tour of Sri Lanka is a chicken kottu, which is finger licking good. That does the trick. The streets of Colombo have laid out a banquet and it’s been delicious. Time to Next the chef de curb starts throwing around a ball digest it all. of dough. He’s about to make hoppers, another Sri Lankan street delicacy. The dough is made from

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WHAT MAKES A BURGER HONEST?

“The fast-food hamburger has been aged for 35 days. Even their delivery method of course. Except Honest Burgers salty brilliantly engineered to offer a succulent was slow. Their favourite butcher, The Ginger crunchy rosemary fries are nearly as and tasty first bite, a bite that in fact Pig, only had one delivery van back then, so famous as the meat. Burger joints are not would be impossible to enjoy if the Tom had to get on his bicycle with a cooler somewhere you would expect to find eater could accurately picture the feedlot on the back and peddle the dry-aged beef vegetarians, but their classy vege fritters, and slaughterhouse and the workers some distance to make their patties. made from local produce, reels them in too. behind it, or knew anything about the ‘artificial grill flavour’ that made the first “This turned out to be pretty tough as we Quality drinks are also important. “Ginger

Illustration by JAMES STEWART bite so convincing.” got busier,” says Tom, “and I then got a call beers and ginger ales are really popular from Tim from The Ginger Pig who said now. I think there is a huge environment for Michael Pollen, who wrote that, that if we wanted his meat that badly he’d them,” says Tom. “[We] fell in love with changed the way we look at fast food deliver! Thank God.” Miss Gingerella. All of us not knowing and made it easier to drive right by anything about the story and the work you those drive through burger franchises. They also had to pull out their DIY skills do with Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka, but But, we missed those succulent and making tables, and the low key, no- with the ingredients element it was a win- tasty first bites. Happily, now there’s an reservations restaurant has been a hit, with win straight away.” answer to fast food anxiety – meet the nine Honest Burgers around London, and Honest Burgers. sometimes enticing in the odd celebrity, An ‘all or nothing’ attitude gives Honest author Damien Walliams being one. Burgers their edge, plus their ‘Honest Defined as “Honestly Awesome” by the Days’, where customers are invited to pay Evening Standard, and with five stars on The “I think people have become much more what they think their meal is worth with Short List, Honest Burgers were at the start informed when it comes to restaurants and all proceeds going to a charity, like Prince of the meat renaissance in London when produce,” says Tom. The horse meat Harry’s Trust. This gets people talking they opened their first burger spot in Brixton scandal [where supermarkets were hocking about them, and in a good way. Village in 2011. off ‘lasagne’ made with horse meat] just shows what supermarkets are capable With slick service and the option to take Two friends, Tom Barton and Philip Eeles, of and thankfully the result is customers away, casual dining doesn’t cut it when had decided to do something simple, yet want to know what’s in their food.” describing Honest Burgers. As The radical at the time and make burgers with Gentlemen’s Journal tweeted recently, the best meat they could find in London. The menu is as honest as the meat – it’s simply “London’s best.” And best meant the antithesis of fast; beef beef, chicken or vegetarian. With fries

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Badlands Belle de Jour Buffalo 66 Paris Texas 9 1/2 Weeks

It was a live lingerie show at midnight. Stylist Karen Inderbitzen-Waller says she was It was a tribute to ten cinematic femme fatales. interested in exploring the cult film idea as “fashion It was a piece of theatre, carried out in a small shows have become quite pedestrian.” The red box. And it all happened on Valentines Day in characters were not chosen for their perfection but Auckland’s red light district, K Road. for being “strong femme fatales”. Each character was minimally briefed, “it was exhilarating and we The idea was as clever as the characters portrayed. were not quite sure what they would do out there. Four of ’s top style brains, Stephen When our ‘Last tango in Paris’ actress flashed her Marr, Karen Inderbitzen-Waller, Delphine Avril chest to the crowd and pushed up against the Planqueel and Veronica Crockford-Pound came window, it took everyone by surprise!” together to create the pop up fashion happening, Lady In Red. Eleven actors/models would pay Presented by Stephen Marr and Kevin Murphy at homage to favourite characters from eleven cult Rockies Gallery, K Rd Auckland. A collaboration love films to a street audience. with Karen Inderbitzen-Waller and Veronica Crockford-Pound. “For a lingerie show, that coincided with Black Friday and Valentine’s Day, we felt we needed to Photography and styling: Karen Inderbitzen-Waller talk of love, but in an unconventional way,” says and Delphine Avril Planqueel Stephen Marr. “And being a window in the red Hair: Matt Benns of Stephen Marr Ponsonby light district it was always going to be racy!” Makeup: Kiekie Stanners of MAC Cosmetics 40 What Goes Around Comes Around 41

FIRE BALL

With a voice like an angel and outfits that would impress the devil, Cooper has performed with legends like Wanda Jackson, Mavis Staples and Robert Plant. The soul singer from Nashville has been called ‘delightful, twinkly, impassioned, and on the make’. She’s dynamite. Angela Barnett asks the questions.

Who inspired you musically? Was opening for Robert Plant your biggest musical moment? My list of influences are way too long, but the two biggest role models in my musical career have been That was pretty rad. But I think my biggest musical Madonna and Dolly Parton. moment was the day my record arrived at the local record shops. I cannot even describe the sense of Where did you get that voice from? enormous accomplishment and pride that comes from that. My mother has a lovely voice, but she is very shy, so we don’t hear it much. My great-grandfather was a Which Led Zep song did you sing? band leader and multi-instrumentalist. He rocked out on a steel guitar and people would come from all ‘What is and what should never be’. I was so over the county to hear him play. He was a Ranger terrified, I started the song in the wrong key, (it has for the Forest Service, I like to think of him as a sort an acapella intro) but quickly adjusted and had of rock ‘n’ roll cowboy. so much fun rocking out with that gigantic crowd. Robert Plant is a Rock God and I am so grateful Your hair has been described as ‘a that he took the time to make me feel special. magma flow’ – how did you feel about that when growing up? How competitive is the music world ADAMIK Photographed by MATT in Nashville? I used to bleach my hair white and flat iron it, it would break and frizz out, I basically tortured it and There are a lot of singers and musicians from all it made me look like Beetle Juice. I was young and over the world trying to make it in Nashville. It’s wanted to look like Barbie. That was dumb. important to stand out, to be different, and all those cliché things, but most of all, you have to work your The for red-head ass off. I think I did well because I am tenacious. females is fiery, stroppy, and highly I want it harder than anyone I know, and sometimes sexualised. Agree? that can be even more important than talent.

Stroppy! That is a great word, we don’t use that What are you most proud of? much in the States. I think all women are fiery. Some of us hide it better than others. I use everything to I am super proud of myself for pushing through my advantage. People are going to label you, judge all the bullshit that comes with being an artist. you, make up stories in their heads about you, no Sometimes, I just want to hide under the covers, matter what colour hair you have. avoid the rejection, and the hard work, or go get a job with security and structure and a reasonable paycheck. Then, I get out of bed and remember that life is short. Too short not to do what you love, even if it means you have to fight for it.

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FOOD PORN

Our friend Woz, who’s a marvellous cook, and kick-ass designer slash writer, has been experimenting with Gingerella. He’s come up with two recipes that are full of gingery flavour and a sprinkle of irony. ALLEGRA MCEVEDY’S MCEVEDY’S ALLEGRA PERA GINGERELLA GINGER NUTS ONION GINGER RELISH GINGER ONION

“GREAT WITH A SAUSAGE SANDO, “WARM, CRUNCHY, SWEET TREATS HOT DOG, OR PILED ONTO A THAT’LL DISAPPEAR FASTER THAN GRILLED STEAK!” A GLASS OF FIZZ.”

INGREDIENTS INGREDIENTS Aside from being one of most INGREDIENTS respected chefs in the UK 1-2 onions 1 & 1/3 cup self-raising flour 4 pears – I prefer the shorter fatter ones for this, juicilicious) until a knife meets just a little (Groucho Club, The River Café, 2 spring onions ½ tsp baking powder but just make sure they’re not too ripe as they’ll resistance when you stick it in. Once ready, food writer for The Guardian 2-3 coloured capsicums ½ tsp salt fall apart in the cooking lift them out with a slotted spoon onto and presenting BBCs Economy 2 cloves garlic 2 tsp powdered ginger kitchen roll and leave to cool. Gastronomy), Allegra McEvedy 1 vanilla pod or two drops of vanilla essence Small knob of ginger ½ cup grated dried coconut (or desiccated) was once fired from a very posh 1 piece star anise By this point, the poaching liquor should be Olive oil Zest of ½ an orange school and wore head to toe A couple of nuggets of stem ginger, sliced pretty reduced – you want to end up with Lemon zest 50g castor sugar leather, complemented by 12 1 bottle Fairtrade Gingerella ginger ale about 4 tablespoons, so simmer it down or 1 tsp salt 50 g unsalted butter ear piercings. She loves a good Slug of ginger wine – optional add a bit of hot water accordingly. ¼ cup cider vinegar 2/3 cup Gingerella game of snooker. 60g chocolate – milk or dark…your call 1 cup Gingerella Meanwhile melt the chocolate in whatever METHOD 1 lime As a nosh-loving ‘caterer with a way you fancy (microwave or in a bowl over METHOD Into a mixing bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, salt, conscience’, she co-founded Leon, METHOD steaming water). Finely slice onions, spring onions, and capsicums. and powdered ginger. Add coconut, orange zest and a healthy fast food chain, which Peel the pears. Use a fork to spear one of the cooled pears Crush garlic, and finely grate the ginger. Add all castor sugar. Rub in the butter until sandy. must have been an oxymoron back and dip the fat end of it into the chocolate, to a little hot olive oil in a saucepan, and sauté the in 2004 when it opened. It now has Choose a pan that can hold all the pears then Make a well in the centre, pour in the Gingerella, and taking care not to make a big old mess, and mixture over a high heat, stirring continuously, until over 20 outlets, and recently she pour in the Gingerella. gently stir into a soft batter. Cover and rest for 1 hour. leave to set a little then do the same with the vege start to caramelise. set up a swine-respecting restaurant Heat cooking oil until just hot (we use canola oil for As it comes up to a simmer, chuck in the vanilla, the rest. in Exmouth, called Blackfoot. Her Add the lemon zest, salt, vinegar, and Gingerella. its clean neutral flavour and high smoke point). Fry star anise, stem ginger and ginger wine if you’re books, The Good Cook, Allegra Cut the lime into 6 wedges – squeeze two Simmer over a medium heat until the liquid has all teaspoons of the dough until evenly coloured on both heading that way. McEvedy’s Colour Cookbook and into the pan to finish off the sauce (have a but evaporated, and the onions are soft and tender. sides. They will colour quickly. Drain on paper towels, Leon: Ingredients and Recipes, are Lay in the pears and simmer then gently, quick taste as you warm it through) and have Season to taste with fresh black pepper. then toss hot ginger nuts in castor sugar mixed with a as loved as her dishes uncovered for 12-20 mins (it’s a wide window one for each of the plates. little cardamom, cinnamon, and nutmeg powders. Slather a slice of fresh bread with your favourite as pears can be anything from rock hard to Allegra created this simple, elegant mustard. Add a grilled sausage, top with onions and pudding for us that is an “Italian bit a squirt of ketchup or hot sauce. Scoff. of finery, albeit with that most British of fruits.”

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MOTHER NATURE’S MAGIC HEALER

For an ugly little root ginger flavours some beautiful cuisine. Perfectly balanced, like everything in nature, ginger’s superpowers go way beyond the wok.

The spice is native to southeastern Asia and Drink has been used in for over 2000 years to Ginger is jam-packed with active substances help digestion and calm stomach upsets. It was so you don’t need much to reap the benefits. so prized in England in the Middle Ages that To make tea, slice up some ginger (one or two one pound of ginger was worth the equivalent 1cm slices) and place in a tea ball in a teapot, of one sheep. And it’s been a key player in or the bottom of a cup, pour over boiling water Ayurvedic medicine. and let it steep for ten minutes. Sweeten with honey or drink it straight. Tea, made with ginger, is a natural remedy for nausea, including morning sickness as it helps Cook

Photographed by SAM MAHAYNI expel intestinal gas. The Greeks used to eat Remove the skin then slice, mince or julienne ginger wrapped in bread to treat digestive depending on the dish and how strong you like it. problems until some clever Spiros decided to Add ginger to a dish at the start of cooking for a put the ginger into the bread dough, creating subtle flavour, add near the end for more bite. what we now know and love as Gingerbread. Buy Full of fire, ginger also helps quell unwanted Ginger’s main chemical, gingerol, is responsible fires in the body and it’s a natural anti-inflammatory. for its explosive flavour and is also the natural A study published in the unappealing sounding anti-inflammatory compound. Wherever possible ‘Journal of pain’, showed that consuming ginger choose fresh over dried for a punchier flavour daily reduces exercise-induced muscle pain. Other and higher levels of gingerol. Hunt for a smooth studies show ginger helps rheumatoid arthritis wrinkle-free skin and it should feel firm and heavy. sufferers by reducing swelling, plus the woody The longer the rhizome the older it is – and the spice has been linked to improving migraines, more stringy and hot. menstrual pains, asthma and hypertension (high blood pressure). Store Fresh ginger can be stored in the fridge for up The knobbly bulb grows underground and a to three weeks unpeeled. Or in the freezer for common misconception is that ginger is a root, six months. however it’s actually the stem, officially called the rhizome, with the botanical name Zingiber The best news is that this kick-ass spice is officinale. Zing is a good adjective to describe what available all year round. happens to the tongue when it licks raw ginger.

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The nipple-revealing photo exhibition, Red Hot, intended to transform the male redhead stereotype from hapless to hero, and its creator, Thomas Knights has accidentally become a voice for anti-. Angela Barnett caught up with Thomas in Sydney.

According to South Park, gingers have no soul, and media interviews. “I didn’t want to harp on about crass jokes would have us believe they also have no discrimination, but then obviously I found myself in sex. One thing gingers, as they’re un-affectionately the situation of being asked these questions and called, are not short on is stereotypes: wimpy, thought, ‘man up,’ I had done this exhibition because clownish, unmanly, unpredictable and the least it came from a personal place.” flattering, embarrassing to take home. Unless they’re fifth in line to the throne. In New York, Thomas asked a young boy who attended Red Hot if he had a hard time at school. Thomas Knights, a London fashion photographer, “Yeah, I just get the standard ginger bullying, but was bullied as a youngster for his red hair and one that’s okay,” the boy stated. “But that’s not good day he decided to do something about it. In 2012, enough - why should ‘just the standard bullying’ be he called all the London modelling agencies he okay?” asks Thomas. Unless you have ginger hair knew, asking to see the gingers on their books. “We or somebody close to you does, it’s impossible to haven’t got any,” replied the agencies. “No demand understand the effect constant comments have on for them.” This prompted an online poster seeking self-esteem, adds Thomas. ginger guys who thought they could be ‘red hot’. It was re-blogged 40,000 times in a week and has Culturally, ginger men have been emasculated since turned into a photo exhibition that’s travelled and desexualised in popular culture. Growing up, from London to New York, to Amsterdam, Sydney Thomas felt like there were no decent role models and Berlin. and that ginger characters were goofy and undesirable. “People say to me, what about Ron “When we launched, it felt like we were so Weasley? [Harry Potter’s best friend] but come taboo,” says Thomas. “The ginger guy had never on, he wasn’t the hero, he wasn’t the heart throb, had a moment before, and people were calling he wasn’t even the bad guy!” it groundbreaking.” Red Hot is turning the male redhead stereotype on its ginger head. Before Prince Harry and Ed Sheeran titillated young hopefuls around the world, ginger heart-throbs Growing up with red hair at a traditional rugby were almost an oxymoron. It’s easy to think this is a school in Bath, England was no joy ride for Thomas. reflection of our innate desires, yet Thomas argues “I heard ‘you f**king ginger!’ and even though it’s that the images we see in the media tell us what is only words, they’re basically saying, ‘you’re a piece attractive, and can be manipulated. of shit and nobody wants to hang out with you’, which is enough to make you feel like a piece of shit.” Since the exhibition, Thomas says he knows of women who now have “a thing” for ginger guys. He dyed his hair as soon as he could, but the “Show people this is the ultimate man, this is desired blonde turned out to be nasty lemon yellow. attractive and suddenly people are fancying it.” “Weirdly, I drew so much more attention because of my piss yellow hair, but I didn’t care. I was thinking, Thanks to Thomas, ginger boys have some heroes ‘yeah, but I’m not ginger!’” to look up to. Post Red Hot’s success, he went back to the London agencies and they all had one The bullying directed at Thomas wasn’t as harsh or two ginger boys on their books. as some of the guys he knows “who were properly beaten to the point of being hospitalised,” but he The Red Hot boys are also reporting another perk. admits he felt it deeply enough to make Red Hot. “Oh my God Tom, seriously I’m getting so much more sex now because of you!” they all cheer. Knowing that “pictures say a thousand words,” he wanted to present a solution – ginger heroes. “I For Thomas, the ultimate sign that gingerism is on decided I was going to show these guys looking the decline would be a ginger James Bond, proving amazing.” He never expected to become a voice gingers not only have souls, but fast cars, fancy for anti-bullying, and has since done a slew of gadgets and plenty of sex.

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GINGERELLA GINGERELLA COCKTAILS COCKTAILS

FANTA PANTS RED MULE LOLA’S RANSOM GINGER & EL FLOTADOR ISLA DE STORMY DE CUBA GINGERELLA

This one’s from our friends We made this drink for Thomas Union Electric bar in Chinatown, The talented mixologist, Laura at Longrain, Sydney, who’ve Knights’ Red Hot 100 book Melbourne, is known for it’s We have made this drink for so Das-Kino, our favourite German Lopez from the Golden Dawn successfully combined launch in London at Conrans brassy Latin-jazzy tunes and many events they’ve all blurred ping-pong bar in Nottingham in Auckland made the following communal eating, banging store. It was served to a throng sassy, ball blowing cocktails. into one friendly memory. The has transformed a former lace drink for the 2014 Marr Factory – mixology, Asian cuisine and a of hot red-headed males and Huw, one of the owners Mayor of Wellington has tried warehouse into a popular hangout the anti-fashion week of New generous spirit, by supporting females, and slightly intimidated transported us to San Salvador it, roller girls in Melbourne, and inspired by 1930’s German Zealand with Karen Walker, a host of Sydney’s social brunettes and very humbled with this concoction making us a boy band in whose cinema. They mash unusual things Zambesi, Kate Sylvester, Helen projects and making a proper blondes. The drink was so tasty yearn for a dirty cigar and plate name we have forgotten... together and must be the first Cherry and NOM*d. difference. They had a we rolled it out again for Thomas’ of pupusas. because it’s possible we took in the world to successfully put our role of R&D too seriously. raisins in a cocktail and get away bartender battle to see who exhibition opening in Sydney. 30 ml Spiced Rum 30 ml Ransom Gin with it. could make the best cocktail 15 ml Triple Sec 60 ml Noble Spirits Quinoa 15 ml Dry Curacao 60 mls Rum (we recommend with Gingerella. Jordan won... 20 ml Lime Juice Vodka 30 ml Coco Lopez Ron Valadero if you’re in NZ 60 ml Havana Club 3 year rum 15 ml Sugar Syrup* 40ml Tanqueray gin Lime (coconut cream) or Noble Spirits FAIR Rum in Double vanilla pod ice-cream 10 Mint Leaves 20ml ginger liqueur Mint 15 ml Pineapple Syrup Australia, and the UK) Gingerella Dash of egg white Gingerella (from an organic can is fine Raisins Lime Muddle the mint, lime juice and 20ml lemon juice although Hew uses a sugar syrup in a tall glass, add In a tall glass, pour the vodka Gingerella In an ice-cream Sunday glass Dash of sugar syrup home-made shrub) ice, rum and orange liqueur, stir over ice, squeeze in a wedge (or old jam jar) drop in a generous Gingerella Cracked black pepper In a tall glass, pour the rum and top with Gingerella. Garnish of lime and pour in half the scoop of the ice cream. Pour in 1/3 bottle of Gingerella over ice, generous squeeze with fresh mint. Peychard bitters and julienned Gingerella. Garnish with freshly the rum, then slowly add of lime and pour in half a fresh ginger to garnish ripped mint and stripy straw. Garnish with pineapple spear Gingerella. Garnish with raisins. Gingerella. Garnish with a And here’s Laura’s sugar syrup and violets recipe (easy to make and Combine the gin, ginger liqueur, @noblespirits metal straw. Then go slam that table. impresses people no end when egg white, lemon juice and Shake the gin, curacao, coco @noblespirits they see it in your fridge). sugar syrup in a shaker. Shake lopez, syrup and pepper in a @daskinonotts heartily. Strain into a shaker. Strain over ice in a high * To make sugar syrup: put 1 margarita glass and top with ball glass. Top with Gingerella cup of sugar and 1 cup of water Gingerella. Garnish with a and garnish. in a pot, bring to boil, lower heat dribble of peychard bitters and and stir constantly until sugar @unionelectric the julienned ginger. dissolves. Cool before using. Can live in fridge for up to six Enjoyed by blondes and months in an airtight container. brunettes everywhere. @thegoldendawntavernofpower @longrain GINGERELLA GINGERELLA 50 What Goes AroundWhat GINGERELLA

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Gingerella isn’t the only do gooder in the family. Karma Cola’s karmic ingredient is the support it provides cola growers in West Africa.

The people we work with in Sierra Leone want the The Foundation is headed by Albert Tucker, a same things as most people. They want to send Fairtrade advocate and former director of their kids to school and they want self-sufficiency; Trading, a pioneering Fairtrade company. To sometimes this can be as simple as having next help administer the funds, we work in conjunction year’s winter food stored safely away for the rainy with the German NGO Welthungerhilfe and the day that will inevitably come. Agro Forestry Farmers Association.

Beyond the need for immediate aid in times of While dedicated to raising funds towards a crisis, like the recent Ebola outbreak in West sustainable future, the Karma Cola Foundation Africa, the best form of long-term aid on the does not dictate the path. The village elders and journey to economic independence is equitable chiefs decide what initiatives the funds should trade. ‘Aid for trade’ as the WTO calls it. support, as they know what they need to build a better future for their villages and children. Small farmers who harvest rainforest crops like cola have the odds stacked against them. They are The first project, the Makenneh Bridge, joined at the mercy of traders who set the price for their old and new Boma and ensures the safe produce. Transportation is affected by bad roads, transportation of people and supplies. if there are roads. For many, the only way to market is walking and carrying their produce and often, if The people of Boma also decided to spend funds they do, they have to pay indiscriminately to pass sending 50 young girls to school every year, checkpoints. install a primary school teacher in a community school, support an educational HIV/AIDS theatre All this means there’s very little to be made group, rehabilitate 12 forest farms, develop a from tending, harvesting and selling crops from seed bank for future seasons and build a rice the rainforest. processing centre to ensure there really is food to eat next winter. Add to this the aftermath of 10 years of civil war, political turmoil and Ebola and you get some The ongoing work and commitment to the people idea of the challenges they face. Basic amenities of Boma and Tiwai communities has been even requiring urgent attention are neglected, including more critical in the advent of Ebola. the rehabilitation of roads, construction of bridges, culverts, schools, guesthouses, the provision of As well as continuing to support existing projects, clean drinking water and things as simple as toilets. the Karma Cola Foundation funded medical and hygiene supplies for the Ebola effort and an What the farmers have told us they need is a good, education programme. The villagers responded reliable and consistent price for their produce really well, working hard to avoid any outbreaks and some support to start their own development and take preventative measures and treatments. programmes. Then perhaps they can fix a few things and start to build a sustainable future. Karma Cola may not be a major contributor to Sierra Leone’s GDP, but we believe this type So that’s what we are endeavouring to do. of trade is the best form of aid, as it creates dependable revenue enabling these communities Since bottling its first batch in 2012, the Karma to determine their own futures and demonstrating Cola Foundation has sent USD30,000 to the that they can produce and deliver quality people of Boma as payment for cola and a small produce. It’s the beginning of a long and mutually percentage of every bottle sold. With support beneficial partnership. from our colleagues on the ground in Sierra Leone the villagers are working together to rebuild and The more fizzy Karma Cola sells the more good sustain their communities. gets done. What goes around comes around

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CONTRIBUTORS THERE’S A LOT YOU CAN’T FIT ON THE BACK OF A LABEL. Thanks everyone who’s helped especially:

We put this zine together because we thought people would like to learn about a fizzy drink that quenches more than your thirst. JAMES STEWART shoots in London, including Vogue, SOFIA COLEY, LULU COLEY AND MINNA he’s made a fashionable name for himself. MOLLOY FOR THEIR GINGER PEOPLE AND Without James Stewart there would be We like Adam for his ideas - his blog, PETS ON PAGE 7. Just like the last time we did this, we’ve harassed and no Gingerella and you wouldn’t be reading SLAMXHYPE, combined street art, cajoled our mates to give us a hand. It’s only fair we give them a this zine. James is a concept artist, sneakers, style and skating back in 2003 THE PEOPLE OF SRI LANKA shout out and give you the chance to tell us what you think. illustrator and a comedian and his style and it became one of most influential is provocative and inherently sharp sites in the world of fashion. Now he Thilanka Wijesinghe After all, what goes around comes around. witted. Often he draws through the works and lives in New Zealand and throws Tirak Wijesinghe night, so, like the Shoemaker’s Elves, he sharp ideas at the Karma Cola team, like Karuna Wijesinghe Connect with us often surprises us in the morning. photographing Stephen on page 5. James’s superpowers as a comic and AND comic artist tell the story of Gingerella MARK CREAGHAN @karma_cola on pages 33 – 36. Natasha Mead for the original design @karma_cola_aus 3D artist, designer, typographer, Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland WARREN ELWIN retoucher are the grown up terms Stephen Marr @karma_cola_uk attributed to Mark Creaghan but we also Veronica Crockford-Pound From designing billboards in Times Square, know him as DJ, friend, and enthusiast. #gingerella #drinknoevil New York to producing art that his He has spent hours and hours grading all Elvie from Impossible friends happily hang on their walls, to the photos for the first and now this for making things possible writing a weekly food column in New zine. It’s one of those jobs, like tidying Zealand’s Bite, Warren Elwin has lived the pantry, that nobody notices when Tanya Egerton from Patagonia many lives. The man who once dropped you do it well yet complain heartily Kieron Tilley from We Walk The Line the Thanksgiving Turkey on the floor when it’s wrong. Mark’s got a keen eye Roos van de Weerd from Fairphone has become a slick, inventive, chef and an excellent ear. When we’re not Nelson and the team from Bondi Laces who makes it all seem so easy. He has throwing photo work at him he’s throwing Charlotte Williamson from TOMS created two delicious recipes with interesting tunes at us. You won’t see Gingerella. Page 42 his work on every single page of this zine. The kids at the Golden Dawn Tom, Dor and Phil from Honest Burger SAM MAHAYNI SIMON OOSTERDIJK Allegra McEvedy

A self-confessed perfectionist, “often The brain of Simon Oosterdijk is a like to the point of absurdity” we love Sam a labyrinth - you never know where Caitlyn Bailey for the research Mahayni’s OCD-ness. His incredible eye it will take you, but you know it will Petra Mihaljevich for her ideas for detail, still life work, and interest in not be where you expected. He has a Plum Savill for her star stalking photographing liquids, makes him one of fascinating design mind and has been Jono Walton for the cocktail wrangling Karma Cola’s best allies. He’s shot so collaborating with other artists for Mitch Donaldson for the suggestions many things for us – bottles, coffee years. His latest project, Pie Paper, is a Sam Chote for more suggestions beans in jars, cocktails, raisins dropping marvel of wit and illustration and crazy into cocktails, funny ginger roots ideas. On paper of course. We asked Sandy Galland for her shrewd edits incognito as people, that his work’s all him to art direct ginger – that ugly Deb Morrison for her sharp eye over this zine. But start with page 7. little root that never looks good in a studio – and he came up with something Dr Hans-Peter Muller from WHITNEY BEDFORD quite extraordinary. You can see it on Welthungerlife, Sierra Leone page 44. Whitney Bedford’s charged creative Michael Saalu from The Agro Forestry mind sits underneath red hair but that’s FINLAY BRAZIER Farmers Association not why we like her. Her seascapes are breathtaking. A graduate from Freshly minted from Massey University The team at Fairtrade the University of California, she won with First Class Honours, Finlay Brazier the 2001 UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing is one sharp young designer and we’re The entire team at All Good for their Biennale and received a graduate lucky to have him on the team. His patience and help fellowship from Hoschule der Kuenste, first assignment was to produce our Berlin. Her stunning paintings have second zine and make it beautiful. been exhibited in , New Taking aesthetics from Natasha Mead, York, Paris, Prague, Berlin, Milan, Israel who designed the first ‘What Goes and Auckland. The shipwreck appears around Comes Around’ Finlay has done an repeatedly in Whitney’s work “as a outstanding job, without one complaint metaphor for a more contemporary – not even after the sixty millionth DESIGNED, WRITTEN, ART DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY: squall - the turbulent political and copy change. Good karma’s coming your social situation in which we live today”. way Finn. Simon Coley And “sometimes,” says Whitney, “it is Angela Barnett the paint itself that sinks the images.” ANGELA BARNETT Finlay Brazier

ADAM BRYCE Angela Barnett writes the way she lives her life, with a spirit that dares you to Adam Bryce grew up reading Thrasher and give it a go. She interviewed Lily Cole, PRINT PRODUCTION BY his Mum’s Vogue. From an early age he was Cooper, Thomas Knights and Ginger (the “obsessed with how people and things plant) as well as knitting the yarns that Graeme Brazier looked”. From interning with Karl weave this zine together. Thanks Angela Lagerfeld to fashion directing magazine you made all this possible.

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