The Bland or the Bountiful? Notes on Australian dining between World Wars 1 & 2
    19 November 2024

    Published in Petits Propos Culinaire 106, Prospect Books, September 2016A group of us have been meeting monthly to talk about food and food writing. At our last meeting the question …

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    Roboting Yum Cha
    17 November 2024

    November 2024I had never been served in a restaurant by a robot before last week. I didn’t even know there was such thing. I came across them in a White …

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    Transforming food production and service? A response to the White Paper ‘Food AI: A game changer for Australia’s food and beverage sector’
    14 November 2024

    October 2024The White Paper 'Food AI: A game changer for Australia's food and beverage sector' was published in April 2024. The White Paper was the result of ‘a collaborative effort, …

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    Diggings 1 November
    1 November 2024

    Whale is delicious’: The push to revive Japan’s whaling cultureIn a seminar room at Tokyo’s prestigious Waseda University last month, about 100 students and guests milled around makeshift tables adorned …

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    Queer Eye for the Moloney Guy
    11 October 2024

    Paper presented to the 23rd Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, July 2020When I first read Oh, for a French Wife!, the 1952 book written by Ted Moloney and Lloyd Ring (Deke) …

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    ‘Some people may think I’m a cissy’. Men and Cookery Competitions 1904 – 1954
    11 October 2024

    October 2024The male sex had taken to cooking, specifically in this case cake making, a considerable time before this. The first instance I found was at Saint Luke’s Christmas Fair …

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    A Fruit Salad Story
    8 October 2024

    October 2024Idly thinking the other day as I am wont to do my thoughts turned to the approaching summer and fruit salads.  I wondered what the story of fruit salad …

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    ‘A practical and extremely interesting collection of Chinese recipes.’ Roy Geechoun and ‘Cooking the Chinese Way’
    4 October 2024

    September 2024In 1948, Roy Geechoun published Cooking the Chinese Way. It contained ‘thirty popular recipes with detailed and precise instructions so that you can now cook real Chinese meals at …

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    Diggings 29 September 2024
    29 September 2024

    Why a global cocoa crunch will sour chocolate for years to come Chocolate lovers already feeling the sting of high prices should brace for worse: costs will continue to rise as …

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    The making of my multicultural palate and the multicultural Australian table
    21 September 2024

    September 2024Kellogs cornflakes were my first exposure to non-Sri Lankan food. (I don’t count the food on board the Oriana, the ship in which we travelled to Australia, as it …

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    ‘We never rolled ourselves up in our blankets more satisfied with a repast.’ Food in the expedition of Ludwig Leichhardt from Moreton Bay to Port Essington 1844-1845
    19 September 2024

    September 2024I first came across Ludwig Leichhardt in High School where he was just one of the white explorers I studied in my Australian history class. I came across him …

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    Pantry Essentials
    11 September 2024

    September 2024I put a call out for my Facebook Friends to nominate ‘What five things are essential in your pantry’, leaving pantry undefined. These were the answers.Read on.

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    Diggings 12 August 2024
    7 September 2024

    The native marsupials are sniffing out and gorging themselves on thousands of dollars of black, or French, truffles a night, causing a headache for farmers in the emerging Australian truffle …

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