December 2025 I enjoy reading community/contributory cookery books. Arguably they are a record of what people actually ate which may be at variance to published recipes. They often are published as …
November 2025 Australian Geographic published The Classic Australian Cookbook in 2021. In its introduction it said: Significant change to our eating habits came after WWII when southern European immigrants introduced foods such …
October 2025 The bane of my life as a South Asian cook is turmeric with its capacity to stain anything and everything. Looking at the most recent stain my thoughts turned …
October 2025 The quandong is used in the back country for making jam, but as it consists chiefly of stone and skin, with comparatively little pulp, it is not a good …
October 2025 I had cause the other day to use Google to find a recipe for Vegetable Lasagna. While searching for it I reflected on the ways I have used to …
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 …
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