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 …
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Big Mulch
Long form articles published and unpublished
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 …
Developing an Appetite for Utopia – Reality versus the Good Food Guide or Hospitality in the Age of Consumerism
27 August 2017
Alison VincentThis 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 …