The broadcaster, cookbook writer and political commentator on hoarding, making Kitchen Cabinet and crying in the makeup room at the Logies
There’s a locket of hair in Annabel Crabb’s handbag. It belongs to her paternal grandmother. “Our family doesn’t really throw things out,” she says enthusiastically. “We’ve also got two thick plaits of my late maternal grandma’s hair from when she was a girl.”
The ABC writer, presenter, podcast host, political commentator and all-round inquisitive polymath is talking about family treasures and what makes an object worth keeping as we sit on high stools at a cafe inside the Calyx at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens.
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