A damper tale
18 January 2025
January 2025I like many other Australians have cooked a damper in the ashes of a fire while camping. I didn’t give any thought to its origin or its place at …
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December 2024There is a view that Australian cuisine was woeful before the influx post-World War 2 of migrants from Middle European countries beginning in 1947. Engagement with their cuisines – …
To the Lentil Burger. A brief history
29 December 2024
December 2024I was chomping on a lentil burger the other day and got to wondering when the first recipe for the burger was published.The earliest mention of the lentil burger …
Vegie likes and dislikes. A modest survey.
10 December 2024
December 2024I asked my Facebook friends:What's your least liked vegie and why?What's your most favorite vegie and why?Here’s what they said with comments from me also.Read more.
Lobster Pekin, Szekely Gulyas, and Boeuf Provencale. Promoting culinary diversity in the Australian Women’s Weekly 1933 – 1970
9 December 2024
December 2024One of my interests in Australian food history is seeing how culinary diversity has been promoted through publications - newspapers, magazines, journals and books. This article looks to identifying …
Of prawns, turkey and nutloaf. Christmas food 2024
4 December 2024
December 2024In December 2024 I asked my FB friends: ‘What do you have for Christmas lunch or dinner?’Two captured well the change that is often commented on between generations – …
Doggedly Anglo-Australian: Woolworths Food Fair. Recipes From Famous-Brand Cooks 1963
22 November 2024
November 2024On 1 May 1963 the Australian Women’s Weekly ( AWW from here) and Woolworths (Woollies from here) jointly published a 31-page magazine 'Recipes from Famous Brand Cooks’. It was …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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) …
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 …
