October 2024

    Queer Eye for the Moloney Guy
    11 October 2024

    Paper presented to the 23rd Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, July 2020When I first read Oh, for a French Wife!, the 1952 book written by Ted Moloney and Lloyd Ring (Deke) …

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    ‘Some people may think I’m a cissy’. Men and Cookery Competitions 1904 – 1954
    11 October 2024

    October 2024The male sex had taken to cooking, specifically in this case cake making, a considerable time before this. The first instance I found was at Saint Luke’s Christmas Fair …

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    A Fruit Salad Story
    8 October 2024

    October 2024Idly thinking the other day as I am wont to do my thoughts turned to the approaching summer and fruit salads.  I wondered what the story of fruit salad …

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    ‘A practical and extremely interesting collection of Chinese recipes.’ Roy Geechoun and ‘Cooking the Chinese Way’
    4 October 2024

    September 2024In 1948, Roy Geechoun published Cooking the Chinese Way. It contained ‘thirty popular recipes with detailed and precise instructions so that you can now cook real Chinese meals at …

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