Aim: A recent article in this journal asked whether cooking should be a dietetic competency and recommended finding dietitians' views on the use of cooking skills interventions as nutrition education. This article presents views about the value of cooking skills in the work of nutrition professionals and students working in an urban Indigenous health service. Methods: We reflect on our experience facilitating a series of practical cooking workshops in adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups and the importance of cooking skills for professionals promoting nutrition in community contexts. Results: Cooking skills were essential for facilitating practical workshops to promote healthy cooking and eating among urban community groups. The workshops provided participants with new cooking ideas, opportunities to cook new recipes and some unfamiliar ingredients as well as learning new cooking skills. These enabled participants to be more confident preparing healthy meals at home. Cooking skills enhanced the processes of both effective community engagement and nutrition promotion. Conclusion: Cooking interventions make an important contribution to promoting nutrition in urban Indigenous contexts and cooking skills are therefore important competencies for nutrition and dietetic professionals delivering practical community nutrition programs.

The Eden-Hybbinette procedure is one of the oldest surgical interventions still commonly used for chronic anterior shoulder instability. The changes to the procedure over the last 100 years allow it to remain a contemporary solution for both primary surgery and revision cases.

Beneficent clinical usage of placebos has been a problem for the application of Kant’s deontology in medical ethics, which, in its strictest form, rejects deception universally. Some defenders of deontology have countered this by arguing placebos can be used by a physician without necessarily being deceptive. In this paper we argue that such a manipulation of Kant’s absolutism is not credible, and therefore, that we should look beyond deontology in our consideration of placebo usage in clinical practice. We conclude that Kant’s deontology cannot be made compatible with placebo use in clinical practice due to the primacy it affords to the principle of autonomy.