An entertainment for the 16th Australian Symposium on Gastronomy, October 2008 Down came a jumbuck to drink from the waterhole Up jumped the swagman and shouted in glee And he sang as he …
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August 2023
A paper presented at the 2nd Australia’s Homosexual Histories Conference at the University of Melbourne, 5-6 November 1999 Two moments in the global history of fags, dykes and food resonate across …
2021 Feeding the Gods. Memories of food and culture in Bengal by Chitrita Banerji (New York: Seagull Books, 2006). Picklehead. From Ceylon to Suburbia; a memoir of food family and finding yourself …
DIRTY FOOD
4 August 2023
2021 The bus would stop at the top of the road, pulling over onto the strip of orange dust between the macadam and a grassy verge bordering the gutter. The gutter, …
Charlie and the Chestnut Forage
4 August 2023
2005 Charlie knocks on the door at 5am. Bastard! It’s the first of cold autumn mornings and I’m desperate to snuggle down till the last possible moment. I stumble to the …
‘Doing’ Curry and Rice
4 August 2023
'Teaser' for the Second Symposium of Australian Gastronomy July 2018 For the first years of my life in Australia, I felt that the food I had grown up on was very …