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 …
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 …
In search of Parramatta’s lost oranges
There I was, at the last session of Touring Tastes: exploring histories of Australian food and culture, a seminar put on by the History Council of NSW as part of the Orange Readers’ and Writers’ Festival 2018. The speaker was discussing tourism generally in Australia, and I guess because he was in Orange, casually mentioned how …
