Long form articles published and unpublished
July 2025‘Bursting out from under the rainforest canopy or rising up from the desert floor wild foods deserve to be tasted, tried and understood.’This is a brief look at how …
July 2025I recently had occasion to re-visit Charmaine Solomon’s The Complete Asian Cookbook published in 1976. ‘My aim in writing this book’, Solomons said in her Foreword, ‘ has been …
June 2025In July 1988 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC) screened something quite new in Australian television. Starting with a montage of a man in a khaki shirt, blue green …
June 2025Pigeons, squabs and the Wonga Wonga at the Australian Table 1864 - 1964June 2025To be LET, For Five Years certain, or any time less, as the Tenant shall require. …
June 2025The article looks at seven native plant cookbooks written by Indigenous cooks and chefs between 2006 – 2025. It looks at the authors’ reasons for writing the book, summarises …
2025Few people know how useful cocoa-nuts are in cooking. They can be used in both the sweet and savoury dishes and, as many old Indians will tell you no curry …
2002There’s no getting away from it. Food, sex and politics have been inextricably linked since Adam and Eve dallied with a snake over an apple in the Garden of Eden. …
A paper for 'Cooking and Eating in Adversity' New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy and Food History. November 2020For dole bread is bitter breadBitter bread and sourThere’s grief in the taste …
2025The unofficial Australian national song, ‘Waltzing Matilda’ is about a swagman (an itinerant) stealing a sheep that has come to drink from the billabong at which the swaggie has set …
A paper presented at the 2nd Australia’s Homosexual Histories Conference at the University of Melbourne, 5-6 November 1999Two moments in the global history of fags, dykes and food resonate across …
July 2024Since first encountering them I have been fascinated by apothecaries in the early years of the colonies and the part they played in the foodways. This advertisement of 21 …
February 2025There is a slur on Australia at times with being told that Australia is the only country which eats the animals on its court of arms or flag – …
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 …
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