Followers of Diggings will know I consider Matt Golding to be one of our best political cartoonists particularly for his use of Australian food - as in this one on the Royal Commission inot the banking industry. The trouble with fake meat Jenny Rosborough is a registered nutritionist who worries that vegan “meats” are perceived …
Review: Wild Asparagus. Wild Strawberries
Barbara Santich Wakefield Press South Australia First published 2018 http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au ‘My typewriter sits forlorn, and my puny attempts to describe the idiosyncrasies of life in rural France go nowhere near capturing its complexities’. Santich is recalling her frustration, sitting in sitting in her room in Caromb in the Midi, France, in 1978. With the …
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Growing food in the post-truth era
Critics fear the merger of agricultural giants Bayer and Monsanto will drive an increase in use of pesticides. AgriLife Today/flickr, CC BY-NC-NDAlana Mann, University of Sydney This article is part of an ongoing series from the Post-Truth Initiative, a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. The series examines today’s post-truth problem in …
OxTales
The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery has launched a series of podcasts, called OxTales. It’s via a free subscription through iTunes or Stitcher. The first podcast is up now: Laura Shapiro, ‘Magic Marshmallow Crescent Puff” April 18, 2018. Teaser: What do the Pillsbury Bake Off and molecular gastronomy have in common? Culinary historian and …
