Long form articles published and unpublished
Paper presented to the 23rd Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, July 2020 When I first read Oh, for a French Wife!, the 1952 book written by Ted Moloney and Lloyd Ring (Deke) …
September 2024 In 1948, Roy Geechoun published Cooking the Chinese Way. It contained ‘thirty popular recipes with detailed and precise instructions so that you can now cook real Chinese meals at …
September 2024 I first came across Ludwig Leichhardt in High School where he was just one of the white explorers I studied in my Australian history class. I came across him …
August 2024 In March 1938, the Western Mail (a weekly newspaper in Western Australia) announced the opening of a ‘Bush Recipes Competition’. Our new competition “Bush Recipes” is open from now until …
August 2024 In 1905 George England Hooke published Australian Fruit Preserving. A Practical Treatise on the Best Methods With Instructions for Making – Jams, Marmalades, Jellies, Conserves, Pickles, Sauces and Chutneys …
2024 Bill Harney’s Cook Book first published in 1960 is unique among Australian cookery books on two counts. First, it deals almost exclusively with recipes for cooking native animals and plants. …
June 2024 Lately I’ve been fascinated by some aspects of early colonial foodways that I overlooked in my history of food in Australia. As redress, I have written about nurserymen who …
2021 The Echuca Coffee Palace, situated at the south end of High Street, on the west side, is a new addition to the architectural features of the town. It consists of …
2024 Straight after school we headed for the fish shop opposite the station. One or two would stay with our bags at the bus stop while the rest of us went …
2024 I had occasion lately to eat a stick of cabanossi, a thin, dry, red, spiced and smoked crumpled sausage. It produced a food memory of lounge rooms and wine bars …
May 2024 In April 1834 the Hobart Town Courier published ‘Some Remarks On the Roots and Other Indigenous Esculents of Van Diemen's Land’. I think I can safely claim this as …
4 April 2024 Lately I have become interested in how recipes published in cookery print media - columns and feature articles in newspapers and magazines, cookery books – shaped Australians’ understanding …
Paul van Reyk March 2024 One of the unexplored areas of Australian culinary history is the place of colonial nurserymen (and the documentary evidence is that they were all men) in …