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 …
July 2025As a kid in Sri Lanka quaffing condensed milk was a daily practice. The can had two holes in it – triangular from the tool that made them. I …
July 2025I recently had occasion to re-visit Charmaine Solomon’s The Complete Asian Cookbook published in 1976. ‘My aim in writing this book’, Solomons said in her Foreword, ‘ has been …
June 2025Vegemite was created by Dr. Cyril P Collister in 1923 for the Fred Walker Company, a food producer and export company. Collister was tasked with developing a spread ‘from …
July 2025One of the themes that ran through my book True To The Land A history of food in Australia was foodways of Indigenous Australians. I thought I had all …
June 2025In July 1988 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC) screened something quite new in Australian television. Starting with a montage of a man in a khaki shirt, blue green …
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