The Evolution of the Classic Aussie Burger (CAB)
30 July 2024
July 2024Order a hamburger with the lot at a café in Australia and you can expect to get a round white bread roll, halved to contain a beef pattie, a …
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July 2024
2040I have become enamoured lately of having a peanut butter and banana smoothie on Saturday mornings at the Sydney Park Kiosk. Indulgent? Yes indeed. Delicious ? Also, yes indeed. It’s got …
2024I recall my first sighting of a passionfruit – first its bruise-purple colour, then the hundreds (so it seemed) of black seeds inside a saffron yellow gel all sitting in …
July 2024We got lucky.Rice Bubbles were released by Kellog’s in 1928. Apparently only Australia and New Zealand calls them ‘Rice Bubbles’. To the rest of the world, they are called …
Tea and Cookery. The Kandy Koola Story
19 July 2024
July 2024In 1898 a slim (72 pages) cookery book was published by the Kandy Koola Tea company ‘For Presentation To The Ladies Of Victoria.’ The Kandy Koola Cookery Book and …
Spag Bol: The making of an Aussie icon
15 July 2024
2002For 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 bolognaise, or spag bol …
2024Henry Lawson is arguably the pre-eminent male chronicler through his short stories of outback domestic life and the life of a swagman and a shearer in Australia in the last …