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Gin, Pasta and Lamingtons. Entomophagy (eating Insects) in Australia
16 September 2025

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 …

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Mi, Kima, and Whitebait Souffle. Embassy Recipes 1964-65
13 September 2025

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 …

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It’s Not Just Using The FOGO: Reducing Household Food Waste
8 September 2025

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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A Highly Spiced Stew. The Australian Women’s Weekly and Curry
4 September 2025

2025 On 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 …

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Weaponised food. The Gaza Famine
28 August 2025

2025 I 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 …

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The Recipe Book of Ada de la Harpe
23 August 2025

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 …

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Stone Bottles, ‘Tinny’ Thomas’, and Ginger Pop. A Miscellany of Ginger Beer 1856 – 1956
23 August 2025

August 2025 In 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 …

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Anything and Everything. Doris Ady and ‘Curries from the Sultan’s Kitchen’
17 August 2025

2025 This 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 …

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One may eat sausage in many languages. Smallgoods  in Australia 1828 – 1965
10 August 2025

August 2025 In 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 …

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Not ‘cookery fiction’. An appreciation of Charmaine Solomon’s body of work on South Asian cuisines
7 August 2025

July 2015 For 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 …

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Want beetroot with that? Looking for the meeting of beetroot and hamburger
26 July 2025

July 2025 In 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 …

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The Great Australian Cookbook
21 July 2025

Edited by Helen Greenwood and Melissa Leong. Published by Geoff Blackwell 2025 A kangaroo is turning a sausage over a barbecue on which there also is a small fish, a prawn, and a …

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Sausages, Salads and Sauces: An alternative story of garlic at the Australian table prior to 1947
17 July 2025

July 2025 There 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 …

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