March 2024In 2008 I gave a paper to the 16th Symposium of Australian Gastronomy in the Hunter Valley. The theme of the paper was Australian songs about food and rivers. …
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Of eggs and buns: Easter eating
7 March 2024
March 2024As we approach Easter I thought it would be of interest to gather from friends what they/their family have traditionally eaten over the Easter period - Holy Thursday through …
The culinary road to the first banana bread
2 March 2024
January 2024I made my first banana bread the other day, that traditional way to use up overripe bananas. I used a recipe from the 1950s and it turned out pretty …
Fair suck of the sav. Glimpses of the saveloy in Australia
5 February 2024
January 2024Before the frankfurter roll (1931), before the hotdog roll (1922), there was the saveloy roll (1911) a hot red sausage snuggling between the sides of a cloven bread roll …
Chutney, yes, but also … A survey of one hundred years of mangoes at the Anglo Australian culinary table
28 January 2024
January 2024After primary school in Sri Lanka I would go with my bothers and classmates to the achcharu woman sitting just outside the school grounds. We would pool what was …
January 2024I read an article about tuckshops in Britain in an online food magazine recently and it set me remembering my tuckshop days at St. Joseph’s Primary School at Singleton …
A vermicelli dinner party
4 January 2024
December 2023As I’ve been researching various items of food in Australia one item keeps cropping up like an insistent child tugging at my leg wanting me to give it attention. …
Carrot Cake. An amusement
16 November 2023
September 2023The other morning a member of my dog-walk-and-coffee group happened to mention that the evening before he had eaten a large slice of carrot cake that had some kind …
Tripe Curry
16 November 2023
November 2023I was brought up eating tripe. Specifically, tripe curry. It was a brown coloured dish, pieces of tripe sitting in a salty, spicy thin broth. I loved the look …
Wild Weed Pie
5 August 2023
I never ate Janni Kyritsis’ food at Berowra Waters; for lack of the dosh, not for lack of desire. It wasn’t until his stint at MG Garage that I had …
Waste
5 August 2023
“The rich must stop consuming so much”, says Hervé Guyomard of the French agricultural and development research agency INRA. This is one of three conditions for being able to feed …
Wherefore to Dover?
5 August 2023
Good question. For the 15th Symposim of Australian Gastronomy being held there.At Snug, I see a chalkboard sign promising half a smoked salmon for $15. It’s from the local butcher …
Finding fungi
5 August 2023
Question: How many kinds of native truffle are there in Australia? Answer: 1000 and still counting. Question: How many of them are edible? Answer: Native furry things eat them all, …