June 2025

    Australia’s Agricultural Identity. An Aboriginal Yarn. A review.
    18 June 2025

    July 2025One of the themes that ran through my book True To The Land A history of food in Australia was foodways of Indigenous Australians. I thought I had all …

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    ‘Have a look at this’. Les Hiddins, the Bush Tucker Man
    16 June 2025

    June 2025In July 1988 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC) screened something quite new in Australian television. Starting with a montage of a man in a khaki shirt, blue  green …

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    More than just a curry house. A brief look at 20 Indian restaurants in Sydney as examples of the changing face of Indian food in Australia.
    9 June 2025

    June 2025I remember a time when there were only half a dozen Indian restaurants in Sydney all with the same menu – Fish Curry, Beef Curry, Eggplant Curry, and Dhal …

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    Curry, hoppers and wattalappam. My favourite childhood dishes.
    8 June 2025

     June 2025My earliest food memory is of eating rice and dhal hand fed by our cook. She expertly mixed rice and dhal into small off-shape balls that were popped into …

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    Pigeons, squabs and the Wonga Wonga at the Australian Table 1864 – 1964
    7 June 2025

    June 2025Pigeons, squabs and the Wonga Wonga at the Australian Table 1864 - 1964June 2025To be LET, For Five Years certain, or any time less, as the Tenant shall require. …

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    ‘You don’t need culinary training to explore the potential of these ingredients’. A look at seven native food cookery books written by Indigenous cooks and chefs 2006 – 2025
    5 June 2025

    June 2025The article looks at seven native plant cookbooks written by Indigenous cooks and chefs between 2006 – 2025. It looks at the authors’ reasons for writing the book, summarises …

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    Cakes, Biscuits, Puddings and Sometimes Curry. Fifty years of culinary use of coconuts in Australia
    2 June 2025

    2025Few people know how useful cocoa-nuts are in cooking.  They can be used in both the sweet and savoury dishes and, as many old Indians will tell you no curry …

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