Long form articles published and unpublished
I’ve been a fan of lemonade as an icy pole, an aerated drink, and a mixer with beer as a shandy. With summer, the season of icy poles, coming up …
It has never occurred to me that a household cook in Australian colonial days could have been a man. Well, I do now. I came across an advertisement for one …
I’m always on the lookout for Australian writers for whom food is an essential part of their narratives. Fiona Kelly McGregor is one such. Two linked novels of theirs - …
If there was any vegetable in Australia likely to draw wildly opposing views, it’s the choko - Sechium edule. My first encounter with it was unbeknownst to me one of the …
In 1933 this advertisement appeared in a Brisbane newspaper. The “Sunbeam Mixmaster” is the latest electrical labour-saving device, designed to aid busy cooks. Its primary use is that of mixing cake ingredients, but among the …
‘Cooking in the bush is no longer just damper made from water and flour accompanied by a rabbit or kangaroo stew’ writes Cathy Savage in Australian Bush Cooking. The book …
Symposiums of Australian Gastronomy (SAG) have been held every 18 months to two years since March 1984. There have been 25 SAGs, the latest being held in Launceston 8 – …
‘The one next door to the Hotel Australia was my choice’, recalled Margaret Fulton, doyenne of Australian cookery: Crumbed cutlets and other crumbed foods such as croquettes were much in demand. …
Foods were rationed in Australia during World War 2 and for five years after to manage shortages and control civilian consumption. Householders were given Ration Books with coupons. Rationed food …
(The artwork above is "Mission Days" by Roy Kennedy) I want to look at assimilation as promoted through three vectors in the first ten years of Dawn 1952 – 1961, vegetable …
How familiar does this sound – butter chicken, sickeningly sweeter than caramel sauce made from a slow heated can of condensed milk; garlic naan leathery as roohide; aloo mattar with …
Introduction: I have never seen Neil Perry on a Friday night at Faheem’s Fast Food in the Inner-West Sydney suburb of Newtown. That is where I head a couple of times a month …
In her review of my book True to the Land. A History of Food in Australia, Gay Bilson wrote: Gloriously social and educative though the Symposium [of Australian Gastronomy] has been, …
