Diggings Archives - Compost https://compost.sydney/category/diggings/ A food writing space Mon, 10 Mar 2025 06:00:54 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Diggings 10 March 2045 https://compost.sydney/diggings-10-march-2045/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 06:00:52 +0000 https://compost.sydney/?p=4837 Pies to pavlovas. The culinary landscape of the Australian Hostess Cookbook (1969) In I969 the Australian Hostess Cookbook was published, edited by Hanna Pan. The Cookbook is in the form of a contributary cookbook of dinners from 40 winners of […]

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]]> Diggings 24 January 2025 https://compost.sydney/diggings-24-january-2025/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:30:07 +0000 https://compost.sydney/?p=4744 The world’s second largest freshwater crayfish was once plentiful in Australia’s longest river – we’re bringing it back Murray crayfish disappeared from South Australia sometime in the past 40 years. Targeted surveys over a five-year period couldn’t find them anywhere in the […]

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]]> Diggings 1 November https://compost.sydney/diggings-1-november/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:42:59 +0000 https://compost.sydney/?p=4683 Whale is delicious’: The push to revive Japan’s whaling culture In a seminar room at Tokyo’s prestigious Waseda University last month, about 100 students and guests milled around makeshift tables adorned with tubs of deep-fried whale meat. They swapped views […]

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]]> Diggings 29 September 2024 https://compost.sydney/diggings-29-september-2024/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 23:49:55 +0000 https://compost.sydney/?p=4658 Why a global cocoa crunch will sour chocolate for years to come  Chocolate lovers already feeling the sting of high prices should brace for worse: costs will continue to rise as global cocoa supplies are at their lowest level in […]

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]]> Diggings 12 August 2024 https://compost.sydney/diggings-12-august-2024-2/ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 23:09:11 +0000 https://compost.sydney/?p=4612 The native marsupials are sniffing out and gorging themselves on thousands of dollars of black, or French, truffles a night, causing a headache for farmers in the emerging Australian truffle industry. The omnivorous foraging creatures normally move quickly around the […]

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]]> Diggings 8 September 2024 https://compost.sydney/diggings-8-september-2024/ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 23:07:05 +0000 https://compost.sydney/?p=4635 Hooke(d). Restoring George England Hooke’s 1905 fruit preserving book to Australian Food History 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 […]

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]]> Diggings 12 August 2024 https://compost.sydney/diggings-12-august-2024/ Sun, 11 Aug 2024 22:19:18 +0000 https://compost.sydney/?p=4613 The bandicoot bandits causing a truffle kerfuffle The native marsupials are sniffing out and gorging themselves on thousands of dollars of black, or French, truffles a night, causing a headache for farmers in the emerging Australian truffle industry. The omnivorous […]

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]]> Diggings 26 JUNE 2024 https://compost.sydney/diggings-26-june-2024/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:16:22 +0000 https://compost.sydney/?p=4526 Labor’s first extinction For a bureaucratic document, the advice was startling in its direct conclusions: the “primary threat” to the skate was “habitat degradation from sustained reduction of dissolved oxygen” and that “the most important anthropogenic contributor to the oxygen […]

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]]> Diggings 15 April 2024 https://compost.sydney/diggings-15-april-2024/ Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:26:26 +0000 https://compost.sydney/?p=4429 This loophole in your food delivery app may be a hazard to your health In November 2022, it was recognised by all states and territories that a national approach to menu labelling was required and agreed on the development of […]

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]]> Diggings 4 March 2024 https://compost.sydney/diggings-4-march-2024/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 01:25:36 +0000 https://compost.sydney/?p=4356 Solving the supermarket: why Coles just hired US defence contractor Palantir What Palantir sells is fundamentally a way of seeing. Its dashboards promise a God’s eye view that can stretch across an entire organisation or zoom in to granular detail to locate that […]

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