Want beetroot with that? Looking for the meeting of beetroot and hamburger

    26 July 2025

    July 2025

    In an idle moment the other day that hoary old question ‘when did beetroot first get onto the hamburger’ came to mind. Looking for the answer I dived into Trove, the digital repository of newspapers and magazines managed by the National Library and some Australian cookery books I have.

    Did I find the answer? That’ll wait till I put before you some other ways I found for using beetroot.

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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.