Roboting Yum Cha
17 November 2024
November 2024I had never been served in a restaurant by a robot before last week. I didn’t even know there was such thing. I came across them in a White …
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Small Mulch
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October 2024The male sex had taken to cooking, specifically in this case cake making, a considerable time before this. The first instance I found was at Saint Luke’s Christmas Fair …
A Fruit Salad Story
8 October 2024
October 2024Idly thinking the other day as I am wont to do my thoughts turned to the approaching summer and fruit salads. I wondered what the story of fruit salad …
September 2024Kellogs cornflakes were my first exposure to non-Sri Lankan food. (I don’t count the food on board the Oriana, the ship in which we travelled to Australia, as it …
Pantry Essentials
11 September 2024
September 2024I put a call out for my Facebook Friends to nominate ‘What five things are essential in your pantry’, leaving pantry undefined. These were the answers.Read on.
The Classic Aussie Burger (CAB). An incomplete history.
23 August 2024
August 2024Order a hamburger with the lot at a café in Australia and you can expect to get a round white bread roll, halved to contain a minced beef patties, …
2024I recently came into possession of this cookbook that has left me with questions that have gone unanswered in the websites for the Imperial Bushman Contingents in the Boer War, …
2024Lately I have been wondering about the culinary story of the avocado at the Australian table occasioned by finding Hensley Spain’s 1977 The Avocado Cookbook. When was the first recipe …
The Evolution of the Classic Aussie Burger (CAB)
30 July 2024
July 2024Order a hamburger with the lot at a café in Australia and you can expect to get a round white bread roll, halved to contain a beef pattie, a …
2040I have become enamoured lately of having a peanut butter and banana smoothie on Saturday mornings at the Sydney Park Kiosk. Indulgent? Yes indeed. Delicious ? Also, yes indeed. It’s got …
2024I recall my first sighting of a passionfruit – first its bruise-purple colour, then the hundreds (so it seemed) of black seeds inside a saffron yellow gel all sitting in …
July 2024We got lucky.Rice Bubbles were released by Kellog’s in 1928. Apparently only Australia and New Zealand calls them ‘Rice Bubbles’. To the rest of the world, they are called …
Tea and Cookery. The Kandy Koola Story
19 July 2024
July 2024In 1898 a slim (72 pages) cookery book was published by the Kandy Koola Tea company ‘For Presentation To The Ladies Of Victoria.’ The Kandy Koola Cookery Book and …