The avocado story in Australia 1824 – 2000 as told through recipes

    8 August 2024

    2024

    Lately I have been wondering about the culinary story of the avocado at the Australian table occasioned by finding Hensley Spain’s 1977 The Avocado Cookbook. When was the first recipe using the avocado published and what were the recipes along the way to 1977?

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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.