More than that vegemite sandwich. Australian songs and poems about food.

    16 March 2024

    March 2024

    In 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. In an idle moment recently I thought why not do something of a follow-up and ask Facebook Friends ‘What song or poem do you know that is about food in Australia?’

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    Paul van Reyk
    My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.