Small Mulch

In this article I look at aspects of the billy, making billy tea, roles billy tea has played and other aspects. I have limited my search to 1851 – 1951; …

Protein supplementing/enriching/fortifying has escaped from the gym and is now crowding my supermarket shelves.  Yoghurt, smoothies, flavoured milk, muesli bars, bread, peanut butter, pancake mixes, ginger nut biscuits, name it …

‘I love cooking for shearers! Without them, the wool industry has no future. They work hard  for their money while living away from their families so they deserve to be …

Window-Smasher Grabs A Cooker Melbourne, Thurs: A thief threw a brick through the window of V. R. Leser's shop in Fitzroy and stole a pressure cooker and two alarm clocks. A witness …

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. …