2025
On the 7th of June 1933 a new magazine hit newsstands across Australia – the Australian Women‘s Weekly (called the Weekly from hereon).
Lauren Samuelson writes of the Weekly:
It’s hard to imagine in our modern world of fragmented food media, that one publication could have been as influential and ubiquitous as the Australian Women’s Weekly. … But between the 1930s and the 1980s the Weekly reigned supreme.
One of my abiding interests in cuisines at the Australian table is how they are presented. This is for South Asian cuisines – that of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Curry has been the most common face for these cuisines. I wondered how a magazine that ‘reigned supreme’ in food media presented curry to its readership. I took as my time frame the first fifty years of its publication 1933 – 1983 corresponding with its reign.
