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 …
From phenomenal plant to culinary anachronism: Sechium edule in Australia
Many thanks to Dr Alison Vincent for permission to post her fascinating research on chokos, the once ubiquitous vine that adorned outside toilets in many an Australian backyard. Choko pickles became a standard at agricultural shows and on the tables in many an Australian kitchen. Baked chokos sat next to peas, carrots and mash at …
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Olives and I
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 …
