Small Mulch

March 2025 In 1864 Edward Abbott gave a perfunctory description of the sausage roll, you can hardly call it a recipe, in The English and Australian Cookery Book. Cookery for the …

March 2025 The Electrical Association for Women (EAW from here) was formed in March 1934 by Florence Violet McKenzie based on a similar British Association. The EAW was a membership-based organisation. …

July 2000 When I first read Oh, for a French Wife!, the book written by Ted Maloney and my gaydar twitched. When I read the Sydney Morning Herald obituary notice of …

February 2025 The Australian Agents-General propose to startle the culinary connoisseurs of London with a series of sixpenny dinners at the Colonial Exhibition of 1886, the viands being exclusively Australian. …

February 2025 In I969 the Australian Hostess Cookbook was published, edited by Hanna Pan. The Cookbook is in the form of a contributary cookbook of dinners from 40 winners of the …

February 2025 It’s an ordinary school exercise book with faint blue lines on each page. The covers are missing. It’s thick with pasted and sticky taped recipes – grown to thrice …

February 2025 I couldn’t resist it. The GG Chocolate ice cream dipped in milk chocolate, malted milk crumb, salted caramel + raspberry. I’ve been writing a lot lately about iconic food in Australia or …

February 2025 On 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 2025 In 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 2024 I 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 2024 One 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 2024 In 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 – …