‘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 non-Indigenous authors of bush food cookery books presented bush foods to the interested home cook.

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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.