Without a doubt a camp oven is the quintessential piece of bush cooking equipment. Cathy Savage, Australian Bush Cooking. The first reference to a camp oven I came across was as one …
One of the early fund-raising events for the HIV/AIDS charity Bobby Goldsmith Foundation was the Boys Own Bake-Off. This article draws on interviews with Bake Off competitors, attendees and hotel …
Every night across Australia people with an empty bag or two gloves, sanitiser and a reach extender head for the dumpsters and garbage bins of supermarkets, restaurants, cafes or other …
In 1976 Don Dunstan, Premier of South Australia, published Don Dunstan’s Cookbook. It was a phenomenon. No other Australian of such high degree had published a book, let alone a …
I bought the cookbook because I like half the world it seems fell in love with Christopher Thé’s Watermelon Cake, reputedly now the most Instagrammed cake. A three-tiered version was …
In 1881 a group of forty men living at David Matthew’s Maloga mission, who had heard of the success of the Kilun at Coranderrk, petitioned the New South Wales government …
I made curried egg sandwiches for lunch the other day. Boiled the eggs and peeled them. Mashed them up with some Keen’s Curry Powder and a little salt. Spread some …
As we move into 2026 here are four food related matters that I think worth keeping an eye on: Indigenous engagement in the bushfood industry Veganism Food insecurity Food delivery …
I’ve been dipping into my collection of native food/ bush food cookery books of late from Vic Cherikoff’s 1989 The Bushfood Handbook to Sharon Winsor’s 2024 Bush Foods & Botanicals. …
I’ve been reading about food insecurity in Australia. It’s grim reading. In this article I look at what recent studies say about its extent, its causes, a recent Inquiry into …
Charmaine Solomon published The Complete Asian Cookbook in 1976. Arguably it obscured the engagement with South Asian and South East Asian cuisines at that time. I look here at engagement …
A paper presented at the 2nd Australia’s Homosexual Histories Conference at the University of Melbourne, 5-6 November 1999 Two moments in the global history of fags, dykes and food resonate across …
Recently I have been writing about South Asian cuisines at the multiculinary Australian table. Spices are a key element in them, giving dishes their characteristic flavour. I felt it was …
