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 …
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The Cumeragunja walk-off. Aboriginal food independence quashed
5 February 2026
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 …
The unhurried road to Curried Egg Sandwiches
30 January 2026
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 …
A quartet of food ways to watch in 2026
25 January 2026
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 …
A uniquely Australian food culture. An inventory with notes of Australian bushfood cookery books 1989 – 2025
18 January 2026
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. …
Food relief is not the answer. Food insecurity in Australia related to income and housing.
12 January 2026
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 …
Panthe Koshwe And Ga Xao Bun Tau. Engagement with South East Asian Cuisines pre-Charmaine Solomon
8 January 2026
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 …
Ozifying Spices. A brief look at a selection of spices at the multiculinary Australian table prior to 1900.
1 January 2026
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 …
South and South East Asian cuisine at the multiculinary Australian table. An Inventory 2011 – 2025
27 December 2025
Contemporary Australian food has its roots in our multicultural heritage … Incredible diversity in our food is now taken for granted ... Australian food has changed dramatically over the past 30 …
Indigeneity and Authenticity. Vic Cherikoff and the beginning of an Australian bushfood cuisine.
13 December 2025
In 1988 at the Fourth Symposium of Australian Gastronomy Vic Cherikoff delivered a paper Bush Food and the True Australian Cuisine. In his paper he said: I maintain that only a cuisine …
November 2025 This article reviews formal meals and menus for imagined meals focussed on Australian native foods across 160 years from 1864 – 2024. The meals were: The first and second experimental dinners …
Treading water. A look at four Australian community/contributory cookery books pre metrification (1971)
4 December 2025
December 2025 I enjoy reading community/contributory cookery books. Arguably they are a record of what people actually ate which may be at variance to published recipes. They often are published as …
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- A uniquely Australian food culture. An inventory with notes of Australian bushfood cookery books 1989 – 2025