A food writing space
Original paper delivered to 12th Australian Symposium on Gastronomy in 2002. This version delivered at Feast Festival 2003 (?), South Australia. There’s no getting away from it. Food, sex and politics have been inextricably linked since Adam and Eve dallied with a snake over an apple in the Garden of Eden. In all visions of …
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Paul van Reyk Published in Petit Propos Culinaire 121, November 2021 'The Echuca Coffee Palace, situated at the south end of High Street, on the west side, is a new addition to the architectural features of the town. It consists of a two storied, commodious brick building, and has been erected with the view of …
Continue reading "When Temperance met Commerce: Coffee Palaces of late 19th Century Australia"
Meanwhile in Australia the first experiments with meat canning began in the early 1840s. However, the discovery of gold which put paid to cheap raw materials and reduced the available labour force, and a major scandal over the supply of inadequately processed tinned meat to the Royal Navy, caused the Australian industry to falter until …
I recall the night several years ago when the walls of the foyer of the government offices in Bridge Street were a moving carpet of bogongs fatally attracted by its light. It seems that was a portent of what has come to pass. Sad news on which to begin this Diggings. Some hope in the …
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