A food writing space
https://e.issuu.com/embed.html?d=curry_and_rice_and_all_things_nice_complete_feb_20&doAutoflipPages=true&u=pvanreyk This is a facsimile of Mrs. C S. Lobendhan's copy of Curry and Rice and All Things Nice published by the Association of Ceylon Women U.K. My thanks to Treville Lobendhan for scanning the cookbook.
John Newton February 2021 'In writing about Indigenous foods, I propose we call them Aboriginal Cookings rather than cuisines, a word that to me is totally inapposite to use in regard to pre-colonial Indigenous cooking . And to justify my use of the neologism ‘cookings’ I’m going to quote Tyson Yunkaporta, the author of Sand …
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A paper for 'Cooking and Eating in times of adversity', New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy & Food History, November 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jxBDNdZoCk final nov 2020Download
First Published in Artlink Vol. 24, No. 2, 2004 Shopping and Extreme Pleasures ‘Pleasure is the necessary complicating nuance that rescues us from pure theory – for surely there is nothing more tedious than earnest discourse on the significance of food’ Hannah Fink[i] The need for a manifesto Food increasingly became alienated from the body …
