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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 …
November 2024I had never been served in a restaurant by a robot before last week. I didn’t even know there was such thing. I came across them in a White …
October 2024The male sex had taken to cooking, specifically in this case cake making, a considerable time before this. The first instance I found was at Saint Luke’s Christmas Fair …
October 2024Idly thinking the other day as I am wont to do my thoughts turned to the approaching summer and fruit salads. I wondered what the story of fruit salad …
September 2024Kellogs cornflakes were my first exposure to non-Sri Lankan food. (I don’t count the food on board the Oriana, the ship in which we travelled to Australia, as it …
September 2024I put a call out for my Facebook Friends to nominate ‘What five things are essential in your pantry’, leaving pantry undefined. These were the answers.Read on.
August 2024Order a hamburger with the lot at a café in Australia and you can expect to get a round white bread roll, halved to contain a minced beef patties, …
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