July 2025
There 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 brought their cuisines and garlic to Australia from 1947 on. The view is wrong. I want to correct it by looking at the culinary uses of garlic through recipes published in newspapers between 1861 – the first published recipe – and 1947.
