August 2025 The story of Macaroni Cheese in Australia begins somewhere before 1823. In that year, in the first reference to macaroni I found, it and vermicelli are listed as goods …
October 2025 In 2025 Elder Bruno Dann and Tahlia Mandie published The Australian Ingredients Kitchen -Simple recipes using bushfoods. To my knowledge that’s the most recent bushfoods cookery book written by …
October 2025 I have written elsewhere of the construction of South Asian cuisines (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh) in Australia through cookery books, newspapers and magazines across the twentieth century. …
February 2025 This article presents some of the findings selected by me as of interest to consumers. They are taken from the Supermarket Inquiry Final Report Supermarket Inquiry Executive Summary and …
October 2025 ‘The Chef Suggests. Strange and exciting dishes with delicacies of the table for to-day and to-morrow’ ‘Compiled and collected’ by John D. Porter and published in 1949 has sat …
October 2025 One is perfectly safe in asserting that the art of cookery is the art of civilisation. In this Australia of ours, the lack of imagination concerning excellent wine and good …
October 2025 Kedgeree. Take some cold boiled fish of any kind, five eggs boiled hard, a cupful of boiled rice, some butter, a cupful of cream, plenty of seasoning, and some …
In October 1911 newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne carried reviews of The Bush Boy’s Book (from hereon Bush Boy’s) by Donald Macdonald. Under this title Mr. Donald Macdonald, the well-known member …
September 2025 I was looking through Australian Geographics’ The Classic Australian Cookbook looking for a recipe for Bread and Butter Pudding and was dismayed to find no recipe for It. If …
September 2025 This paper is a response to the National Food Security Strategy: Discussion Paper. Note: This is a compilation from the various texts cited with little editorialising from me. Why …
September 2025 In 2021 the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) published Edible insects: A roadmap for the strategic growth of an emerging Australian industry. ‘With the global population predicted …
August 2025 The idea was simple. Ask the wives of the many Ambassadors/ High Commissioners/ Charge d'Affaires/ Counsellors living in Canberra to contribute a recipe to a new weekly feature in …
September 2025 The figures are shocking. Each year Australians waste around 7.6 million tonnes of food across the food supply chain. This equates to about 312kg per person. Food waste costs the Australian …
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