Flour, tea, sugar and sometimes grog. Food in the stories of Henry Lawson.

    6 July 2024

    2024

    Henry 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 decade of the 19th century and the first  decade of the 20th. Several of them mention food. What picture do we get from Lawson’s stories of food in these settings?

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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.