February 2025The Australian Agents-General propose to startle the culinary connoisseurs of London with a series of sixpenny dinners at the Colonial Exhibition of 1886, the viands being exclusively Australian. …
February 2025In I969 the Australian Hostess Cookbook was published, edited by Hanna Pan. The Cookbook is in the form of a contributary cookbook of dinners from 40 winners of the …
February 2025In 1891 Adam Mahomed, John Silva and Agnes Fleming were raided by police on the basis of ‘numerous complaints that the house (in which they lived) … was the …
February 2025It’s an ordinary school exercise book with faint blue lines on each page. The covers are missing. It’s thick with pasted and sticky taped recipes – grown to thrice …
February 2025I couldn’t resist it.The GGChocolate ice cream dipped in milk chocolate, malted milk crumb, salted caramel + raspberry.I’ve been writing a lot lately about iconic food in Australia or …
February 2025On the 11th of August 1975 Al Grassby, Australian Minister for Immigration, laid the foundation for a multicultural Australia in a paper given to the Cairnmillar Institute ‘Strategy 2000: …
January 2025In January 2025 the Australian Broadcasting Commission (the ABC from hereon) ran the series Eat The Invaders ‘a provocative attempt to turn our unwanted ecological trash into desirable culinary …
The world’s second largest freshwater crayfish was once plentiful in Australia’s longest river – we’re bringing it backMurray crayfish disappeared from South Australia sometime in the past 40 years. Targeted surveys …
January 2025I like many other Australians have cooked a damper in the ashes of a fire while camping. I didn’t give any thought to its origin or its place at …
December 2024There is a view that Australian cuisine was woeful before the influx post-World War 2 of migrants from Middle European countries beginning in 1947. Engagement with their cuisines – …
December 2024I was chomping on a lentil burger the other day and got to wondering when the first recipe for the burger was published.The earliest mention of the lentil burger …
December 2024I asked my Facebook friends:What's your least liked vegie and why?What's your most favorite vegie and why?Here’s what they said with comments from me also.Read more.
December 2024One of my interests in Australian food history is seeing how culinary diversity has been promoted through publications - newspapers, magazines, journals and books. This article looks to identifying …