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I’ve been reading about food insecurity in Australia. It’s grim reading. In this article I look at what recent studies say about its extent, its causes, a recent Inquiry into …
Charmaine Solomon published The Complete Asian Cookbook in 1976. Arguably it obscured the engagement with South Asian and South East Asian cuisines at that time. I look here at engagement …
Contemporary Australian food has its roots in our multicultural heritage … Incredible diversity in our food is now taken for granted ... Australian food has changed dramatically over the past 30 …
In 1988 at the Fourth Symposium of Australian Gastronomy Vic Cherikoff delivered a paper Bush Food and the True Australian Cuisine. In his paper he said: I maintain that only a cuisine …
December 2025 I enjoy reading community/contributory cookery books. Arguably they are a record of what people actually ate which may be at variance to published recipes. They often are published as …
November 2025 Australian Geographic published The Classic Australian Cookbook in 2021. In its introduction it said: Significant change to our eating habits came after WWII when southern European immigrants introduced foods such …
October 2025 The bane of my life as a South Asian cook is turmeric with its capacity to stain anything and everything. Looking at the most recent stain my thoughts turned …
August 2025 The story of Macaroni Cheese in Australia begins somewhere before 1823. In that year, in the first reference to macaroni I found, it and vermicelli are listed as goods …
October 2025 In 2025 Elder Bruno Dann and Tahlia Mandie published The Australian Ingredients Kitchen -Simple recipes using bushfoods. To my knowledge that’s the most recent bushfoods cookery book written by …
October 2025 I have written elsewhere of the construction of South Asian cuisines (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh) in Australia through cookery books, newspapers and magazines across the twentieth century. …
February 2025 This article presents some of the findings selected by me as of interest to consumers. They are taken from the Supermarket Inquiry Final Report Supermarket Inquiry Executive Summary and …
October 2025 Kedgeree. Take some cold boiled fish of any kind, five eggs boiled hard, a cupful of boiled rice, some butter, a cupful of cream, plenty of seasoning, and some …
September 2025 I was looking through Australian Geographics’ The Classic Australian Cookbook looking for a recipe for Bread and Butter Pudding and was dismayed to find no recipe for It. If …
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