Tea and Cookery. The Kandy Koola Story

    19 July 2024

    July 2024

    In 1898 a slim (72 pages) cookery book was published by the Kandy Koola Tea company ‘For Presentation To The Ladies Of Victoria.’ The Kandy Koola Cookery Book and Housewife’s Companion though ‘marked at one shilling’ was posted ‘free to any address on receipt of post-card or letter to Bourke-street, Melbourne’. The presentation to Melbourne ladies and its free distribution are two of the things about the cookery book that intrigued me.

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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.