August 2023 The guava is my favourite fruit firmly established in this position from my childhood days in Sri Lanka picking guavas from trees of our neighbours. It was the combination …
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Big Mulch
Long form articles published and unpublished
Not a feed for a hungry man: a sketch of okra in Australia
18 August 2023
2023 Okra are seen in the markets more and more but are a relative newcomer. The Australian Women’s Weekly 1981 The story of Anglo-Celtic Australian cuisine from the first days of the colony …
August 2023 No farm should be without rosellas. They are easily grown, they bear heavily, they make an excellent preserve, and are infinitely preferred to the mulberry for puddings. The fruit …
The 20 February 1896 edition of the Goulburn Evening Penny Post carried this advertisement: “Recipes of Lenten Dishes" Is the title of a little book very appositely published by Messrs. Angus and Robertson, …
An entertainment for the 16th Australian Symposium on Gastronomy, October 2008 Down came a jumbuck to drink from the waterhole Up jumped the swagman and shouted in glee And he sang as he …
A paper presented at the 2nd Australia’s Homosexual Histories Conference at the University of Melbourne, 5-6 November 1999 Two moments in the global history of fags, dykes and food resonate across …
DIRTY FOOD
4 August 2023
2021 The bus would stop at the top of the road, pulling over onto the strip of orange dust between the macadam and a grassy verge bordering the gutter. The gutter, …
In May 1913, the Australian Town and Country Journal published in its ‘Questions Answered’ column this response to an inquiry by G.F.T. of Inverell for a recipe for rosella chutney: Rosella …
Lately I have become interested in walking down some of the lesser worn paths of ingredients, methods of preparing them and their contribution to Australian cuisine. I am interested in …
Jacqui Newling, Paul van Reyk and Alison Vincent First published in Petit Propos Culinaires 125, April 2023 The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the Many, as well as the Upper Ten …
From chutneys to constipation: The culinary and other uses of tamarind in Australia 1787 – 1909
2 June 2023
Paul van Reyk TAMARIND FRUIT - Would some subscriber of the 'Sunday Times’ inform me how I could make use of tamarind fruit for home consumption? — E. W. Rockhampton, Queensland …
April 2022 It was the kind of observation on Australian history by a new chef that ever-so-slightly irks the food historian in me and sets me sleuthing for the evidence to …
Chillies – A Survey of Published Recipes 1871 – 1921
30 April 2023
Tartare Sauce Put the yolks of two raw eggs into a basin with half a saltspoonful of salt, a little pepper, and half a teaspoonful each of French and English made …
