A National Dish?
March 2024What would you say was the Australian National Dish? Posing the question and asking for nominations is sort of going where angels fear to tread. But that’s what I …
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March 2024What would you say was the Australian National Dish? Posing the question and asking for nominations is sort of going where angels fear to tread. But that’s what I …
Paul van ReykThe Aristologist: vol 14: p 9- 35. Napier, New Zealand. 2023Recently my culinary curiosity has been circling around the story of the eggplant in Australia. The fat, glossy …
March 2024In 2008 I gave a paper to the 16th Symposium of Australian Gastronomy in the Hunter Valley. The theme of the paper was Australian songs about food and rivers. …
March 2024As we approach Easter I thought it would be of interest to gather from friends what they/their family have traditionally eaten over the Easter period - Holy Thursday through …
Solving the supermarket: why Coles just hired US defence contractor PalantirWhat Palantir sells is fundamentally a way of seeing. Its dashboards promise a God’s eye view that can stretch across an entire organisation …
January 2024I made my first banana bread the other day, that traditional way to use up overripe bananas. I used a recipe from the 1950s and it turned out pretty …
February 2024For the last twenty years I have been a food historian/ food writer focusing on Australian cuisine. In the course of doing research for my book True to the …
January 2024Before the frankfurter roll (1931), before the hotdog roll (1922), there was the saveloy roll (1911) a hot red sausage snuggling between the sides of a cloven bread roll …
Tucker-shoppingI read an article about tuckshops in Britain in an online food magazine recently and it set me remembering my tuckshop days at St. Joseph’s Primary School at Singleton in …
January 2024After primary school in Sri Lanka I would go with my bothers and classmates to the achcharu woman sitting just outside the school grounds. We would pool what was …
January 2024I read an article about tuckshops in Britain in an online food magazine recently and it set me remembering my tuckshop days at St. Joseph’s Primary School at Singleton …
December 2023As I’ve been researching various items of food in Australia one item keeps cropping up like an insistent child tugging at my leg wanting me to give it attention. …
December 2023Rabbits are a dry meat, only fit for pies or curries; and excellent served as the latter …Abbott, Edward, The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the Many, …