Weaponised food. The Gaza Famine

    28 August 2025

    2025

    I see them every night on the news. Gazan children literally skin and bones, bloated stomachs, mouths stretched, huge eyes that look uncomprehendingly at the camera and their carers. I’ve seen children like this in non-conflict caused famines, victims of extreme drought or some other natural disaster.

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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.