2025On the 7th of June 1933 a new magazine hit newsstands across Australia – the Australian Women‘s Weekly (called the Weekly from hereon). Lauren Samuelson writes of the Weekly:It’s hard to …
2025I see them every night on the news. Gazan children literally skin and bones, bloated stomachs, mouths stretched, huge eyes that look uncomprehendingly at the camera and their carers. I’ve …
This is my grandmother Ada de la Harpe's recipe book. I did a version over a decade ago and have finally gotten around to posting it. There's an introduction to …
August 2025In this article I don’t trace the history of ginger beer in Australia. Instead I get together a grab bag of items on ginger beer over the course of …
2025This book is an important milestone in the publication of cookery books in Australia and New Zealand, for it is written by a newcomer who has brought her skills and …
August 2025In this article I don’t trace the history of ginger beer in Australia. Instead I get together a grab bag of items on ginger beer over the course of …
August 2025In March 1965 the Australian Women’s Weekly (AWW from hereon) published ‘Continental Sausages’ a four page ‘dictionary’ of 59 of the eponymous food items. Each entry gave the name …
July 2015For years I’ve been giving recipes to friends… “Why don’t you put them in a book, they say. Well at last, it seems I have done so. It makes …
July 2025In an idle moment the other day that hoary old question ‘when did beetroot first get onto the hamburger’ came to mind. Looking for the answer I dived into …
Edited by Helen Greenwood and Melissa Leong.Published by Geoff Blackwell2025A kangaroo is turning a sausage over a barbecue on which there also is a small fish, a prawn, and a …
July 2025There is a commonly held view that garlic only became part of the multiculinary Australian table post-World War 2 when migrants and refugees from war affected countries in Europe …
July 2025I’ve written before on aspects of the making of the Multiculinary Australian Table. But they have all been based on reviewing the story of a particular cuisine - Sri …
July 2025‘Bursting out from under the rainforest canopy or rising up from the desert floor wild foods deserve to be tasted, tried and understood.’This is a brief look at how …
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