2024I recently came into possession of this cookbook that has left me with questions that have gone unanswered in the websites for the Imperial Bushman Contingents in the Boer War, …
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2024Lately I have been wondering about the culinary story of the avocado at the Australian table occasioned by finding Hensley Spain’s 1977 The Avocado Cookbook. When was the first recipe …
The Evolution of the Classic Aussie Burger (CAB)
30 July 2024
July 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 beef pattie, a …
2040I have become enamoured lately of having a peanut butter and banana smoothie on Saturday mornings at the Sydney Park Kiosk. Indulgent? Yes indeed. Delicious ? Also, yes indeed. It’s got …
2024I recall my first sighting of a passionfruit – first its bruise-purple colour, then the hundreds (so it seemed) of black seeds inside a saffron yellow gel all sitting in …
July 2024We got lucky.Rice Bubbles were released by Kellog’s in 1928. Apparently only Australia and New Zealand calls them ‘Rice Bubbles’. To the rest of the world, they are called …
Tea and Cookery. The Kandy Koola Story
19 July 2024
July 2024In 1898 a slim (72 pages) cookery book was published by the Kandy Koola Tea company ‘For Presentation To The Ladies Of Victoria.’ The Kandy Koola Cookery Book and …
2024Henry Lawson is arguably the pre-eminent male chronicler through his short stories of outback domestic life and the life of a swagman and a shearer in Australia in the last …
June 2024In 1963 the Festival of Asia Committee in New South Wales published a slim volume of 32 x A5 pages simply titled Cook Book. The content was recipes in …
The Death of the Democracy Sausage?
17 June 2024
2018In November 2018, Bunnings, the Australian hardware retailer issued new guidelines for charities who raise funds from sausage sizzles outside Bunnings’ stores. A sausage sizzle at its simplest is the …
June 2024In March 2024 Australia Post issued a set of four stamps under the heading of The Shared Table. The Overview accompanying the stamps states the intent of the issue:Historically, …
2024I’ve got guests coming to early supper tonight. So today will be spent provisioning for supper and also some of my larder foodstuffs need replenishing. This is the provisioning plan.First …
THE Cookbook and Butter Churn Quest
21 May 2024
A book printed in 1659 and a churn brought from Ireland last century have won £100 each for their owners in our quest to find the oldest cookbook and butter …