Mi, Kima, and Whitebait Souffle. Embassy Recipes 1964-65

13 September 2025

August 2025

The idea was simple. Ask the wives of the many Ambassadors/ High Commissioners/ Charge d’Affaires/ Counsellors living in Canberra to contribute a recipe to a new weekly feature in the Canberra Times – Embassy Recipes. The first was published on 1 July 1964 – a recipe for Mi given by Mme. Isarabhakdi, wife of the Ambassador for Thailand, Mr. Vadhana Isarabhakdi. The last, number 51, was published on 23 June 1965 and was for Danish stuffed white cabbage contributed by Mrs N. C. Stenderup, wife of the Minister of the Royal Danish Legation.

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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.