4 April 2024Lately I have become interested in how recipes published in cookery print media - columns and feature articles in newspapers and magazines, cookery books – shaped Australians’ understanding …
4 April 2024Lately I have become interested in how recipes published in cookery print media - columns and feature articles in newspapers and magazines, cookery books – shaped Australians’ understanding …
This loophole in your food delivery app may be a hazard to your healthIn November 2022, it was recognised by all states and territories that a national approach to menu …
April 2024That’s the question I put to my Facebook followers. The range of the 67 responses was fascinating, with more response in areas I was not expecting at all and …
Paul van Reyk March 2024One of the unexplored areas of Australian culinary history is the place of colonial nurserymen (and the documentary evidence is that they were all men) in …
2024My first encounter with a SAO biscuit was soon after arriving in Australia in the early 1960’s. I had never seen or eaten a biscuit like it. A bubbled surface, …
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 …
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