What was your favourite treat as a kid?
April 2024That’s the question I put to my Facebook followers. The range of the 67 responses was fascinating, with more response in areas I was not expecting at all and …
April 2024That’s the question I put to my Facebook followers. The range of the 67 responses was fascinating, with more response in areas I was not expecting at all and …
2024My first encounter with a SAO biscuit was soon after arriving in Australia in the early 1960’s. I had never seen or eaten a biscuit like it. A bubbled surface, …
March 2024What would you say was the Australian National Dish? Posing the question and asking for nominations is sort of going where angels fear to tread. But that’s what I …
March 2024In 2008 I gave a paper to the 16th Symposium of Australian Gastronomy in the Hunter Valley. The theme of the paper was Australian songs about food and rivers. …
March 2024As we approach Easter I thought it would be of interest to gather from friends what they/their family have traditionally eaten over the Easter period - Holy Thursday through …
January 2024I made my first banana bread the other day, that traditional way to use up overripe bananas. I used a recipe from the 1950s and it turned out pretty …
January 2024Before the frankfurter roll (1931), before the hotdog roll (1922), there was the saveloy roll (1911) a hot red sausage snuggling between the sides of a cloven bread roll …
January 2024After primary school in Sri Lanka I would go with my bothers and classmates to the achcharu woman sitting just outside the school grounds. We would pool what was …
January 2024I read an article about tuckshops in Britain in an online food magazine recently and it set me remembering my tuckshop days at St. Joseph’s Primary School at Singleton …
December 2023As I’ve been researching various items of food in Australia one item keeps cropping up like an insistent child tugging at my leg wanting me to give it attention. …
September 2023The other morning a member of my dog-walk-and-coffee group happened to mention that the evening before he had eaten a large slice of carrot cake that had some kind …
November 2023I was brought up eating tripe. Specifically, tripe curry. It was a brown coloured dish, pieces of tripe sitting in a salty, spicy thin broth. I loved the look …
I never ate Janni Kyritsis’ food at Berowra Waters; for lack of the dosh, not for lack of desire. It wasn’t until his stint at MG Garage that I had …
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