April 2023 I came across someone the other day who has never eaten sweet and sour pork. The more I tried to explain what it was the more she looked bewildered …
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Big Mulch
Long form articles published and unpublished
Eating in Berlin
17 September 2017
Thanks to Alison Vincent for directing, me, and now you, dear reader, to her terrific blog post on eating in Berlin. A first hand report on currywurst, yes, but much …
“Poor people. Armies. Not enough to eat”: Food Wars in the Dystopian Present in Doris Lessing’s Canopus in Argos: Archives.
16 September 2017
A paper presented at the 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, Melbourne 2016 In The Sirian Experiments, the third novel in the Canopus in Argos: Archives quintet, its narrator Ambien II at …
Developing an Appetite for Utopia – Reality versus the Good Food Guide or Hospitality in the Age of Consumerism
27 August 2017
Alison Vincent This paper was presented at the 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, Melbourne, December, 2016. It is reprinted in Compost with her permission. In response to the increasing consumer interest in …
The raw and the cooked: eating offal through the ages
9 August 2017
John Newton [Note from John: Still don't remember writing it but could easily have done so although the reference to Pei at the end sort of brings it to the present. …
If she’d thought about it, Gertrude Stein might have written ‘A picnic is a picnic is a picnic’. But for the anthropologist Mary Douglas, a picnic, like a Tolstoyan family, …
