Soy sauce fish bottles and pizza savers. Ending the use of single-use plastic.

12 November 2026

The table behind us was celebrating a 60th birthday. Like other birthday parties it had helium ballons bobbing up and down. One got loose and went floating away to who knows where.  It was accidental. Had it been intentional the person who released it would be committing an illegal act in State and Territory jurisdictions across Australia.

 

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Big Mulch

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 articles cover a range of topics pertinent to the multicuisinal Australian table from foods of the First Nations, through settler colonial food, the influences of migrants to the present day.