It made it fun to fight. The Boy’s Own Bake-Off

20 February 2026

One of the early fund-raising events for the HIV/AIDS charity Bobby Goldsmith Foundation was the Boys Own Bake-Off. This article draws on interviews with Bake Off competitors, attendees and hotel managers, to capture the event and its place as a community response to AIDS.

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Paul van Reyk
My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.