July 2025

    The Great Australian Cookbook
    21 July 2025

    Edited by Helen Greenwood and Melissa Leong.Published by Geoff Blackwell2025A kangaroo is turning a sausage over a barbecue on which there also is a small fish, a prawn, and a …

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    Sausages, Salads and Sauces: An alternative story of garlic at the Australian table prior to 1947
    17 July 2025

    July 2025There is a commonly held view that garlic only became part of the multiculinary Australian table post-World War 2 when migrants and refugees from war affected countries in Europe …

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    The Multiculinary Australian Table
    10 July 2025

    July 2025I’ve written before on aspects of the making of the  Multiculinary Australian Table. But they have all been based on reviewing the story of a particular cuisine  -  Sri …

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    ‘The native ingredient is the catalyst’. A review of some non-Indigenous bush tucker cookery books
    10 July 2025

    July 2025‘Bursting out from under the rainforest canopy or rising up from the desert floor wild foods deserve to be tasted, tried and understood.’This is a brief look at how …

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    By the spoonful. Some uses of Condensed Milk
    4 July 2025

    July 2025As a kid in Sri Lanka quaffing condensed milk was a daily practice. The can had two holes in it – triangular from the tool that made them. I …

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    Nasi Goreng, Telor Besengflek, and  Chilli Crab.  Australian / Asian Culinary Engagements to 1976
    3 July 2025

    July 2025I recently had occasion to re-visit Charmaine Solomon’s The Complete Asian Cookbook published in 1976. ‘My aim  in writing this book’, Solomons said in her Foreword, ‘ has been …

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