Anything and Everything. Doris Ady and ‘Curries from the Sultan’s Kitchen’

    17 August 2025

    2025

    This book is an important milestone in the publication of cookery books in Australia and New Zealand, for it is written by a newcomer who has brought her skills and knowledge of Asian food to our countries …

    So wrote Margaret Fulton, doyen of Australian cookery, in her Introductory Note to Doris Ady’s 1968 Curries from the Sultan’s Kitchen. It was the first Australian cookery book to deal solely with the cuisines of South Asia – Indian, Pakistani, Burmese and Sri Lankan.

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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.