‘The one next door to the Hotel Australia was my choice’, recalled Margaret Fulton, doyenne of Australian cookery: Crumbed cutlets and other crumbed foods such as croquettes were much in demand. …
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July 2026
The pineapple pizza in Australia
22 July 2026
Love it or hate it pineapple continues to be a topping for pizza. This article tracks the road to it over 110 years of pizza in Australia from the first …
Foods were rationed in Australia during World War 2 and for five years after to manage shortages and control civilian consumption. Householders were given Ration Books with coupons. Rationed food …
Aboriginal assimilation promoted through food related material published in Dawn magazine.
8 July 2026
(The artwork above is "Mission Days" by Roy Kennedy) I want to look at assimilation as promoted through three vectors in the first ten years of Dawn 1952 – 1961, vegetable …
As I talk with Chris I can’t get that song [David Bowies Rebel Rebel] out of my head. Partly, that’s the image of her and her partner Margie Harris, turning …
Conquered Cuisines
6 July 2026
How familiar does this sound – butter chicken, sickeningly sweeter than caramel sauce made from a slow heated can of condensed milk; garlic naan leathery as roohide; aloo mattar with …
Friday Night at Faheem’s
5 July 2026
Introduction: I have never seen Neil Perry on a Friday night at Faheem’s Fast Food in the Inner-West Sydney suburb of Newtown. That is where I head a couple of times a month …
Out of the Garden and onto the Streets: The limits of Epicureanism in achieving gastronomic justice.
3 July 2026
In her review of my book True to the Land. A History of Food in Australia, Gay Bilson wrote: Gloriously social and educative though the Symposium [of Australian Gastronomy] has been, …
Symposiums of Australian Gastronomy (SAGs from hereon) are biennial events begun in March1984 that bring together food historians, food writers, academics, cooks and people interested in food and foodways to …
From milkshakes to smoothies. A brief history.
2 July 2026
My first milkshake was poured for me by Charmain Solomon in the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo where she and her husband Reuben were lodged. This was before she became …
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