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50 Gourmet Traveller covers from the past 50 years

Typefaces may fade out of style, but a passion for good food and travel is forever. Here are 50 of our favourite covers from the past five decades, and here's to 50 more.

Judging by its covers, Gourmet Traveller has been an arbiter of taste and serial trendsetter over the past half-century, but you only need to read between the cover lines to see some things never change: Australians are perennially excited by food and travel. Here are 50 of our favourite covers from the past five decades, and here’s to 50 more.

February/March 1966

February/March 1966

Our first-ever cover is revealed.

September/October 1966

February/March 1968

September/October 1969

February/March 1980

August/September 1982

April/May 1983

June/July 1983

December 1983/January 1984

February/March 1984

December 1984/January 1985

June 1985

December 1985

November 1986

April 1987

June 1987

September 1988

May 1989

April 1991

September 1991

October 1995

December 1996

April 1997

December 1998

August 1999

October 1999

January 2001

July 2002

March 2003

December 2003

July 2004

August 2004

August 2006

October 2006

August 2007

December 2010

April 2011

May 2011

February 2012

June 2013

August 2013

November 2013

February 2015

May 2015

October 2015

February 2016

March 2016

May 2016

October 2016

November 2016

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