Australia’s Agricultural Identity. An Aboriginal Yarn. A review.

    18 June 2025

    July 2025

    One 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 the bases covered. Joshua Gilbert’s book shows me a glaring oversight. I did not cover Indigenous farmers.

    Gilbert’s book champions the historic and contemporary place of Indigenous farmers in Australia’s agricultural industry.

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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.