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, …
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Long form articles published and unpublished
An entertainment for the 16th Australian Symposium on Gastronomy, October 2008Down came a jumbuck to drink from the waterholeUp jumped the swagman and shouted in gleeAnd he sang as he …
A paper presented at the 2nd Australia’s Homosexual Histories Conference at the University of Melbourne, 5-6 November 1999Two moments in the global history of fags, dykes and food resonate across …
DIRTY FOOD
4 August 2023
2021The 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 VincentFirst published in Petit Propos Culinaires 125, April 2023The 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 ReykTAMARIND 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 2022It 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 SaucePut 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 …
April 2023I 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 …
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 2016In The Sirian Experiments, the third novel in the Canopus in Argos: Archives quintet, its narrator Ambien II at …