Quick reads
August 2025 The story of Macaroni Cheese in Australia begins somewhere before 1823. In that year, in the first reference to macaroni I found, it and vermicelli are listed as goods …
October 2025 In 2025 Elder Bruno Dann and Tahlia Mandie published The Australian Ingredients Kitchen -Simple recipes using bushfoods. To my knowledge that’s the most recent bushfoods cookery book written by …
October 2025 I have written elsewhere of the construction of South Asian cuisines (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh) in Australia through cookery books, newspapers and magazines across the twentieth century. …
February 2025 This article presents some of the findings selected by me as of interest to consumers. They are taken from the Supermarket Inquiry Final Report Supermarket Inquiry Executive Summary and …
October 2025 Kedgeree. Take some cold boiled fish of any kind, five eggs boiled hard, a cupful of boiled rice, some butter, a cupful of cream, plenty of seasoning, and some …
September 2025 I was looking through Australian Geographics’ The Classic Australian Cookbook looking for a recipe for Bread and Butter Pudding and was dismayed to find no recipe for It. If …
August 2025 The idea was simple. Ask the wives of the many Ambassadors/ High Commissioners/ Charge d'Affaires/ Counsellors living in Canberra to contribute a recipe to a new weekly feature in …
September 2025 The figures are shocking. Each year Australians waste around 7.6 million tonnes of food across the food supply chain. This equates to about 312kg per person. Food waste costs the Australian …
2025 I see them every night on the news. Gazan children literally skin and bones, bloated stomachs, mouths stretched, huge eyes that look uncomprehendingly at the camera and their carers. I’ve …
August 2025 In this article I don’t trace the history of ginger beer in Australia. Instead I get together a grab bag of items on ginger beer over the course of …
2025 This book is an important milestone in the publication of cookery books in Australia and New Zealand, for it is written by a newcomer who has brought her skills and …
August 2025 In March 1965 the Australian Women’s Weekly (AWW from hereon) published ‘Continental Sausages’ a four page ‘dictionary’ of 59 of the eponymous food items. Each entry gave the name …
July 2025 In an idle moment the other day that hoary old question ‘when did beetroot first get onto the hamburger’ came to mind. Looking for the answer I dived into …
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