From Rock Oysters with Green Ants to Davidson’s Plum Lamington. A bushfood menu.

30 October 2025

October 2025

In 2025 Elder Bruno Dann and Tahlia Mandie published The Australian Ingredients Kitchen -Simple recipes using bushfoods. To my knowledge that’s the most recent bushfoods cookery book written by Indigenous persons. It’s given me the opportunity to look over the other Indigenous authored bushfood books I have (eight of them) and build up a menu from them. They cover the years from 2001 – 2025.

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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.