Diggings 30 Sept 2017
30 September 2017
I love this pic - bottom panel is South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill raising a glass in the same pub in which the then South Australian Premier Don Dunstan raised …
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Diggings Sept 21 2017
21 September 2017
A rainbow bagel with 'unicorn cheese' from the Brooklyn Bagel Boys because...'Alarm bells we cannot ignore': world hunger rising for first time this century“If you look at the 815 million …
Nourished: Reflections from Food and Words 2017
18 September 2017
Paul van Reyk, Sept 2017It's a delicious early Spring indulgence, a day's worth of thinking about food from the perspectives of a broad spectrum of writers on food - journalists, …
Diggings Sept 9 2017
17 September 2017
Given the lead digging in this edition, how could I resist posting this image of Hillevi Rombin, Miss Universe 1955, promoting National Kraut and Frankfurter Week in Chicago.Berlin 24/7 What’s …
Eating in Berlin
17 September 2017
Thanks to Alison Vincent for directing, me, and now you, dear reader, to her terrific blog post on eating in Berlin. A first hand report on currywurst, yes, but much …
“Poor people. Armies. Not enough to eat”: Food Wars in the Dystopian Present in Doris Lessing’s Canopus in Argos: Archives.
16 September 2017
A paper presented at the 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, Melbourne 2016In The Sirian Experiments, the third novel in the Canopus in Argos: Archives quintet, its narrator Ambien II at …
Thoughts on “This Tiny Little Country Feeds the World.”
8 September 2017
This tiny country feeds the world. Really?Interesting piece picked up by Rachel Laudan, author of the very good CUISINE AND EMPIRE: COOKING IN WORLD HISTORY