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Each bite of this Kit Kat I’m eating leaves me wanting more. My response to it is typical of responses to Ultraprocessed Foods (UPFs). I’ve recently come across the term …
Aunty Beryl’s Cookbook
17 September 2026
Here I am, I’m a Gamilaroi woman, eighty-three years of age, and I have written a cookbook. That makes me feel really happy, I’m fulfilling a dream I have always …
Bidgee, fish paste and mutton stew. Food in Fiona Kelly McGregor’s novels Iris and The Trap
9 September 2026
I’m always on the lookout for Australian writers for whom food is an essential part of their narratives. Fiona Kelly McGregor is one such. Two linked novels of theirs - …
They grew wild over the back shed. A choko story
3 September 2026
If there was any vegetable in Australia likely to draw wildly opposing views, it’s the choko - Sechium edule. My first encounter with it was unbeknownst to me one of the …
In 1933 this advertisement appeared in a Brisbane newspaper. The “Sunbeam Mixmaster” is the latest electrical labour-saving device, designed to aid busy cooks. Its primary use is that of mixing cake ingredients, but among the …
Then one afternoon I saw Adeline outside Condy’s Ham and Beef at Taylor Square. Iris, Fiona Kelly McGregor. It was only a passing reference, but it stopped me in my tracks. I’ve …
Some ambitious people try emu. 50 Years of bush camp meals
13 August 2026
‘Cooking in the bush is no longer just damper made from water and flour accompanied by a rabbit or kangaroo stew’ writes Cathy Savage in Australian Bush Cooking. The book …
Symposiums of Australian Gastronomy (SAG) have been held every 18 months to two years since March 1984. There have been 25 SAGs, the latest being held in Launceston 8 – …
‘The one next door to the Hotel Australia was my choice’, recalled Margaret Fulton, doyenne of Australian cookery: Crumbed cutlets and other crumbed foods such as croquettes were much in demand. …
The pineapple pizza in Australia
22 July 2026
Love it or hate it pineapple continues to be a topping for pizza. This article tracks the road to it over 110 years of pizza in Australia from the first …
Foods were rationed in Australia during World War 2 and for five years after to manage shortages and control civilian consumption. Householders were given Ration Books with coupons. Rationed food …
Aboriginal assimilation promoted through food related material published in Dawn magazine.
8 July 2026
(The artwork above is "Mission Days" by Roy Kennedy) I want to look at assimilation as promoted through three vectors in the first ten years of Dawn 1952 – 1961, vegetable …
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Recent Posts
- Not an employee but protected. Fair working conditions for food delivery workers
- Bliss, Ultraprocessed foods and me. A consumer’s conundrum. September 2026
- Aunty Beryl’s Cookbook
- Bidgee, fish paste and mutton stew. Food in Fiona Kelly McGregor’s novels Iris and The Trap
- They grew wild over the back shed. A choko story
