Small Mulch

In June 2023 the confectioner Allens announced that they were ceasing production of Fantales the caramel and chocolate toffee sweets wrapped in mini biographies of film stars, best enjoyed as …

In 1839 the Southern Australian published this letter.   I wish, through the medium of your columns, to call the attention of my brother colonists, particularly the poorer class, to one amongst …

Without a doubt a camp oven is the quintessential piece of bush cooking equipment. Cathy Savage, Australian Bush Cooking. The first reference to a camp oven I came across was as one …

Every night across Australia people with an empty bag or two  gloves, sanitiser and a reach extender head for the dumpsters and garbage bins of supermarkets, restaurants, cafes or other …

In 1976 Don Dunstan, Premier of South Australia, published Don Dunstan’s Cookbook. It was a phenomenon. No other Australian of such high degree  had published a book, let alone a …

As we move into 2026 here are four food related matters that I think worth keeping an eye on: Indigenous engagement in the bushfood industry Veganism Food insecurity Food delivery …

I’ve been dipping into my collection of native food/ bush food cookery books of late from Vic Cherikoff’s 1989 The Bushfood Handbook to Sharon Winsor’s 2024 Bush Foods & Botanicals. …

I’ve been reading about food insecurity in Australia. It’s grim reading.  In this article I look at what recent studies say about its extent, its causes, a recent Inquiry into …

Contemporary Australian food has its roots in our multicultural heritage … Incredible diversity in our food is now taken for granted ... Australian food has changed dramatically over the past 30 …

In 1988 at the Fourth Symposium of Australian Gastronomy  Vic Cherikoff delivered a paper Bush Food and the True Australian Cuisine. In his paper he said: I maintain that only a cuisine …