I’ve been a fan of lemonade as an icy pole, an aerated drink, and a mixer with beer as a shandy. With summer, the season of icy poles, coming up …
It has never occurred to me that a household cook in Australian colonial days could have been a man. Well, I do now. I came across an advertisement for one …
When can we say that a cuisine is now a standard part of the Australian table? We can look at the growth of cuisine specific high-end restaurants. We can gauge …
In True to The Land. A History of food in Australia I wrote of the gig economy home delivery workers: Whether people working in the gig economy are employees or independent …
Each bite of this Kit Kat I’m eating leaves me wanting more. My response to it is typical of responses to Ultraprocessed Foods (UPFs). I’ve recently come across the term …
Here I am, I’m a Gamilaroi woman, eighty-three years of age, and I have written a cookbook. That makes me feel really happy, I’m fulfilling a dream I have always …
I’m always on the lookout for Australian writers for whom food is an essential part of their narratives. Fiona Kelly McGregor is one such. Two linked novels of theirs - …
If there was any vegetable in Australia likely to draw wildly opposing views, it’s the choko - Sechium edule. My first encounter with it was unbeknownst to me one of the …
In 1933 this advertisement appeared in a Brisbane newspaper. The “Sunbeam Mixmaster” is the latest electrical labour-saving device, designed to aid busy cooks. Its primary use is that of mixing cake ingredients, but among the …
Then one afternoon I saw Adeline outside Condy’s Ham and Beef at Taylor Square. Iris, Fiona Kelly McGregor. It was only a passing reference, but it stopped me in my tracks. I’ve …
‘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. …
