July 2026

You can’t take yourself too seriously. Chris Manfield Profiled for Divine Magazine 2001
7 July 2026

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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Mentions, papers and meals. An overview of the engagement of Symposiums of Australian Gastronomy with Australian multiculinarism
3 July 2026

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 …

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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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