A food writing space
I recently came across this 2010 article that raised issues I had not considered about maintaining Indigenous Australians access to customary foods. I was particularly interested in the discussion on the impact of new technologies that make hunting and fishing more productive which can in turn to over-harvesting and the discussion that follows on how …
Continue reading "Support for Indigenous wildlife management in Australia to enable sustainable use"
I was asked by Maeve Marsden to be part of her theatre series Queerstoris in July 2019. I had earlier in the year been part of a project Maeve worked on with Google in Australia called My Mother's Kitchen, an app played kinda like a pinball game where your rolled a ball around the floorplan …
The first olives I cured at home were kalimata that I helped mates harvest from their small grove in Orange. I had long had a book on curing olives and cooking with them and went to it for a method. Doing the scoring and soaking and so on seemed too much effort so I chose …
The Death of the Democracy Sausage? In November 2018, Bunnings, the Australian hardware retailer issued new guidelines for charities who raise funds from sausage sizzles outside Bunnings’ stores. A sausage sizzle at its simplest is the act of cooking thin beef mince sausages on a barbecue hot plate (never the grill section) and serving it …
