Too sweet, and … pineapple!.  A brief history of Sweet and Sour Pork in Australia.

    30 April 2023

    April 2023

    I came across someone the other day who has never eaten sweet and sour pork.  The more I tried to explain what it was the more she looked bewildered then disgusted. I rose to its defence as she asked me more and more about the dish: was it really Chinese, what was the sauce made of, what was pineapple doing in a supposedly Chinese dish, when and where was it created?  But I was floundering. Time to do some researching I thought.

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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.

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