August 2023The guava is my favourite fruit firmly established in this position from my childhood days in Sri Lanka picking guavas from trees of our neighbours. It was the combination …
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August 2023
Not a feed for a hungry man: a sketch of okra in Australia
18 August 2023
2023Okra are seen in the markets more and more but are a relative newcomer.The Australian Women’s Weekly 1981The story of Anglo-Celtic Australian cuisine from the first days of the colony …
Diggings 16 August 2023
16 August 2023
The feral flying under the radar: why we need to rethink European honeybeesFeral honeybees have successfully invaded most land-based ecosystems across Australia, including woodlands, rainforests, mangrove-salt marsh, alpine and arid ecosystems. They can …
August 2023No farm should be without rosellas. They are easily grown, they bear heavily, they make an excellent preserve, and are infinitely preferred to the mulberry for puddings. The fruit …
Wild Weed Pie
5 August 2023
I never ate Janni Kyritsis’ food at Berowra Waters; for lack of the dosh, not for lack of desire. It wasn’t until his stint at MG Garage that I had …
Waste
5 August 2023
“The rich must stop consuming so much”, says Hervé Guyomard of the French agricultural and development research agency INRA. This is one of three conditions for being able to feed …
Wherefore to Dover?
5 August 2023
Good question. For the 15th Symposim of Australian Gastronomy being held there.At Snug, I see a chalkboard sign promising half a smoked salmon for $15. It’s from the local butcher …
Finding fungi
5 August 2023
Question: How many kinds of native truffle are there in Australia? Answer: 1000 and still counting. Question: How many of them are edible? Answer: Native furry things eat them all, …
The metroagriculturist
5 August 2023
I tried not to, I really did; but what happened was this. My septuagenarian mum decided she so much liked a purslane mallung I once made that she commissioned a …
Man Goes Wild for Mangoes
5 August 2023
The man not three meters away from me on busy Waigani Road in Port Morseby is wielding in one hand a knife around a meter in length, blade blinding silver …
The 20 February 1896 edition of the Goulburn Evening Penny Post carried this advertisement:“Recipes of Lenten Dishes"Is the title of a little book very appositely published by Messrs. Angus and Robertson, …
Guradji – the Next Big Thing in native food?
5 August 2023
The invitation from Slow Food Sydney intrigued. ‘Jesse [Gurugirr] is a First Nations Guringai man who will help unlock the health secrets of our traditional ancestors passed down over thousands …
Honey Meat Preservation
5 August 2023
I love it when reading some old traveller’s or amateur anthropologist’s account I come across a description of a food practice that I haven’t heard of before, one that straddles …