January 2024After primary school in Sri Lanka I would go with my bothers and classmates to the achcharu woman sitting just outside the school grounds. We would pool what was …
January 2024I read an article about tuckshops in Britain in an online food magazine recently and it set me remembering my tuckshop days at St. Joseph’s Primary School at Singleton …
December 2023As I’ve been researching various items of food in Australia one item keeps cropping up like an insistent child tugging at my leg wanting me to give it attention. …
December 2023Rabbits are a dry meat, only fit for pies or curries; and excellent served as the latter …Abbott, Edward, The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the Many, …
Do you know where your seafood has come from? Here’s why it mattersAustralians are in the dark about whether their Christmas lunch has been ethically sourced because of a lack …
October 2023'Contrary to popular belief olive oil was fairly common in many colonial kitchens ... While olive oil was sold, used and marketed for medicinal purposes by chemists it was predominantly …
November 2023I had occasion lately to bring up the subject of tripe with my coffee-and-dog-walking crew - I’d recently seen the bible/book version of it in a Chinese butchery. I …
Carrot Cake. An amusementThe food historian in me wondered when carrot cake made its first appearance at the Australian table, in what guise, how it developed over the years …
September 2023The other morning a member of my dog-walk-and-coffee group happened to mention that the evening before he had eaten a large slice of carrot cake that had some kind …
November 2023I was brought up eating tripe. Specifically, tripe curry. It was a brown coloured dish, pieces of tripe sitting in a salty, spicy thin broth. I loved the look …
November 2023I grew up with condensed milk till my early adolescent years. In Sri Lanka, home for the first 10 years of my life, I got my hit mainly from …
October 2023Thomas Shepherd is one of the contributors to the early development of the Australian foodscape who has been left out of its history. This article seeks to redress …
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