To the Lentil Burger. A brief history

    29 December 2024

    December 2024

    I was chomping on a lentil burger the other day and got to wondering when the first recipe for the burger was published.

    The earliest mention of the lentil burger I found was in a 1974 promotion of the forthcoming third Coff’s Harbour Paddy’s Day in which Mrs. Norma McConnell (one of the organisers) was reported as saying: ‘lentil burgers and herbal tea would be on sale for health food fanatics’. In 1977 Lentil Burgers were on the menu of the newly opened Health Food Bar at the University of New South Wales.

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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.