September 2024In 1948, Roy Geechoun published Cooking the Chinese Way. It contained ‘thirty popular recipes with detailed and precise instructions so that you can now cook real Chinese meals at …
Why a global cocoa crunch will sour chocolate for years to come Chocolate lovers already feeling the sting of high prices should brace for worse: costs will continue to rise as …
September 2024Kellogs cornflakes were my first exposure to non-Sri Lankan food. (I don’t count the food on board the Oriana, the ship in which we travelled to Australia, as it …
September 2024I first came across Ludwig Leichhardt in High School where he was just one of the white explorers I studied in my Australian history class. I came across him …
September 2024I put a call out for my Facebook Friends to nominate ‘What five things are essential in your pantry’, leaving pantry undefined. These were the answers.Read on.
The native marsupials are sniffing out and gorging themselves on thousands of dollars of black, or French, truffles a night, causing a headache for farmers in the emerging Australian truffle …
Hooke(d). Restoring George England Hooke’s 1905 fruit preserving book to Australian Food HistoryIn 1905 George England Hooke published Australian Fruit Preserving. A Practical Treatise on the Best Methods With Instructions …
August 2024In March 1938, the Western Mail (a weekly newspaper in Western Australia) announced the opening of a ‘Bush Recipes Competition’.Our new competition “Bush Recipes” is open from now until …
August 2024In 1905 George England Hooke published Australian Fruit Preserving. A Practical Treatise on the Best Methods With Instructions for Making – Jams, Marmalades, Jellies, Conserves, Pickles, Sauces and Chutneys …
August 2024Order a hamburger with the lot at a café in Australia and you can expect to get a round white bread roll, halved to contain a minced beef patties, …
The bandicoot bandits causing a truffle kerfuffleThe native marsupials are sniffing out and gorging themselves on thousands of dollars of black, or French, truffles a night, causing a headache for …
2024I recently came into possession of this cookbook that has left me with questions that have gone unanswered in the websites for the Imperial Bushman Contingents in the Boer War, …
2024Lately I have been wondering about the culinary story of the avocado at the Australian table occasioned by finding Hensley Spain’s 1977 The Avocado Cookbook. When was the first recipe …
