The metroagriculturist
5 August 2023
I tried not to, I really did; but what happened was this. My septuagenarian mum decided she so much liked a purslane mallung I once made that she commissioned a …
No Comment
Small Mulch
Quick reads
Man Goes Wild for Mangoes
5 August 2023
The man not three meters away from me on busy Waigani Road in Port Morseby is wielding in one hand a knife around a meter in length, blade blinding silver …
Guradji – the Next Big Thing in native food?
5 August 2023
The invitation from Slow Food Sydney intrigued. ‘Jesse [Gurugirr] is a First Nations Guringai man who will help unlock the health secrets of our traditional ancestors passed down over thousands …
Honey Meat Preservation
5 August 2023
I love it when reading some old traveller’s or amateur anthropologist’s account I come across a description of a food practice that I haven’t heard of before, one that straddles …
2021Feeding the Gods. Memories of food and culture in Bengal by Chitrita Banerji (New York: Seagull Books, 2006).Picklehead. From Ceylon to Suburbia; a memoir of food family and finding yourself …
Charlie and the Chestnut Forage
4 August 2023
2005Charlie knocks on the door at 5am. Bastard! It’s the first of cold autumn mornings and I’m desperate to snuggle down till the last possible moment. I stumble to the …
‘Doing’ Curry and Rice
4 August 2023
'Teaser' for the Second Symposium of Australian Gastronomy July 2018For the first years of my life in Australia, I felt that the food I had grown up on was very …
A la recherche du sweets perdu: An obit for Fantales
26 June 2023
June 2023A piece of my childhood was stolen from me on June 20, 2023. Nestlé Oceania Confectionery announced that it would cease making Fantales in July 2023.Fantales – hard sticky …
My hybrid Sri Lankan Christmas cake
25 June 2023
It’s a tradition. Every December I go to my grandmother Ada’s recipe book. Page 95: Christmas Cake. I’ve made it for my family for over 30 years.As I make it, …
‘Doing’ Curry and Rice
5 August 2018
Of course I ate it, desperate not to be out of place while all the while feeling very much out of place.https://bit.ly/2vpjzZl
Review: Wild Asparagus. Wild Strawberries
27 May 2018
Barbara SantichWakefield Press South AustraliaFirst published 2018www.wakefieldpress.com.au ‘My typewriter sits forlorn, and my puny attempts to describe the idiosyncrasies of life in rural France go nowhere near capturing its complexities’. Santich …
Growing food in the post-truth era
28 April 2018
Critics fear the merger of agricultural giants Bayer and Monsanto will drive an increase in use of pesticides. AgriLife Today/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Alana Mann, University of Sydney This article is part of an …
Essentials: oils, starch, and stuff in jars
21 January 2018
In his 2000 book Hunger, Terry Durack, chief restaurant critic for The Sydney Morning Herald and the co-editor of the SMH Good Food Guide, listed the ‘bare essentials’ as he …