A Fruit Salad Story

    8 October 2024

    October 2024

    Idly 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 was in Australia. What was the first published recipe for one? When did pineapple become one of the fruits or bananas? When did someone first open a tin of fruit salad? When did custard first accompany the fruit? &c &c.

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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.