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Month: February 2022

Posted on February 25, 2022

Diggings 25 February 2022

Easter approaching I have been doing research into Lenten food recipes in Australian newspapers and magazines. This is the first advertisement for the Lenten recipe book of the prolific Harriet Wicken that I have come across. A bumper issue kicking off with a story about an experiment I am avid to know the results of; …

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Posted on February 15, 2022

Diggings 15 February 2020

First up in this edition of Diggings - I have for some time now been trying to find out how much government funding for Research and Development (R & D) goes into native food projects. The answer from friends in the R & D business is that it appears no-one keeps any data on this. …

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Posted on February 1, 2022

Spag Bol: The making of and Aussie icon

For generations, Australian families have dined at home, with varying frequency, on some version of spaghetti with a sauce of tomato and minced beef. Indeed, spaghetti bolognese, or spag bol to give it its typically Australian abbreviated name, is so entrenched a part of Australian food culture that it regularly secures a place in polls …

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Posted on February 1, 2022

Curry & Eggs: An Australian infatuation

As a child in Sri Lanka egg curry meant some version of whole hard-boiled eggs in a curry gravy. There isn’t a recipe for this in the cookery book of my grandmother Ada de la Harpe. She does have recipes for Devilled Eggs and Savoury Eggs which I will come to.  Curries were usually made …

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