‘Cooking in the bush is no longer just damper made from water and flour accompanied by a rabbit or kangaroo stew’ writes Cathy Savage in Australian Bush Cooking. The book …
Symposiums of Australian Gastronomy (SAG) have been held every 18 months to two years since March 1984. There have been 25 SAGs, the latest being held in Launceston 8 – …
‘The one next door to the Hotel Australia was my choice’, recalled Margaret Fulton, doyenne of Australian cookery: Crumbed cutlets and other crumbed foods such as croquettes were much in demand. …
Love it or hate it pineapple continues to be a topping for pizza. This article tracks the road to it over 110 years of pizza in Australia from the first …
Foods were rationed in Australia during World War 2 and for five years after to manage shortages and control civilian consumption. Householders were given Ration Books with coupons. Rationed food …
(The artwork above is "Mission Days" by Roy Kennedy) I want to look at assimilation as promoted through three vectors in the first ten years of Dawn 1952 – 1961, vegetable …
As I talk with Chris I can’t get that song [David Bowies Rebel Rebel] out of my head. Partly, that’s the image of her and her partner Margie Harris, turning …
How familiar does this sound – butter chicken, sickeningly sweeter than caramel sauce made from a slow heated can of condensed milk; garlic naan leathery as roohide; aloo mattar with …
Introduction: I have never seen Neil Perry on a Friday night at Faheem’s Fast Food in the Inner-West Sydney suburb of Newtown. That is where I head a couple of times a month …
In her review of my book True to the Land. A History of Food in Australia, Gay Bilson wrote: Gloriously social and educative though the Symposium [of Australian Gastronomy] has been, …
Symposiums of Australian Gastronomy (SAGs from hereon) are biennial events begun in March1984 that bring together food historians, food writers, academics, cooks and people interested in food and foodways to …
My first milkshake was poured for me by Charmain Solomon in the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo where she and her husband Reuben were lodged. This was before she became …
Talking with a friend recently we began remembering ‘ethnic’ cafes and restaurants we used to frequent in the 70s and 80s that closed down years ago. I asked Facebook Friends what …
