Parmesan Cheese, the early years 1830 – 1880. A vignette

    23 March 2025

    March 2025

    As I was dusting Parmesan cheese onto my spaghetti Bolognaise the other night I fell to wondering what the backstory of Parmesan in Australia was. When was it first mentioned in Australia? When was it first locally produced? When was the first recipe using Parmesan published? (Those two don’t have to be the same). How else was it used? This vignette is something of answer to those and other questions that may arise.

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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.