June 2024
In 1963 the Festival of Asia Committee in New South Wales published a slim volume of 32 x A5 pages simply titled Cook Book. The content was recipes in the form of Menus from thirteen Asian countries. It was the most comprehensive collection of recipes from Asian cuisines published in Australia from the earliest days of the colony up to and including 1963. This article describes the Cook Book (from here ‘the Festival Book) and its contents positioning it in the political context at the time of publication and in the context of recipes for Asian food published in cookery books over this time.
