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March 2025The Electrical Association for Women (EAW from here) was formed in March 1934 by Florence Violet McKenzie based on a similar British Association. The EAW was a membership-based organisation. …
July 2000When I first read Oh, for a French Wife!, the book written by Ted Maloney and my gaydar twitched. When I read the Sydney Morning Herald obituary notice of …
February 2025The Australian Agents-General propose to startle the culinary connoisseurs of London with a series of sixpenny dinners at the Colonial Exhibition of 1886, the viands being exclusively Australian. …
February 2025In I969 the Australian Hostess Cookbook was published, edited by Hanna Pan. The Cookbook is in the form of a contributary cookbook of dinners from 40 winners of the …
February 2025It’s an ordinary school exercise book with faint blue lines on each page. The covers are missing. It’s thick with pasted and sticky taped recipes – grown to thrice …
February 2025I couldn’t resist it.The GGChocolate ice cream dipped in milk chocolate, malted milk crumb, salted caramel + raspberry.I’ve been writing a lot lately about iconic food in Australia or …
February 2025On the 11th of August 1975 Al Grassby, Australian Minister for Immigration, laid the foundation for a multicultural Australia in a paper given to the Cairnmillar Institute ‘Strategy 2000: …
January 2025In January 2025 the Australian Broadcasting Commission (the ABC from hereon) ran the series Eat The Invaders ‘a provocative attempt to turn our unwanted ecological trash into desirable culinary …
December 2024I was chomping on a lentil burger the other day and got to wondering when the first recipe for the burger was published.The earliest mention of the lentil burger …
December 2024I asked my Facebook friends:What's your least liked vegie and why?What's your most favorite vegie and why?Here’s what they said with comments from me also.Read more.
December 2024One of my interests in Australian food history is seeing how culinary diversity has been promoted through publications - newspapers, magazines, journals and books. This article looks to identifying …
December 2024In December 2024 I asked my FB friends: ‘What do you have for Christmas lunch or dinner?’Two captured well the change that is often commented on between generations – …
November 2024On 1 May 1963 the Australian Women’s Weekly ( AWW from here) and Woolworths (Woollies from here) jointly published a 31-page magazine 'Recipes from Famous Brand Cooks’. It was …
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