The 20 February 1896 edition of the Goulburn Evening Penny Post carried this advertisement: “Recipes of Lenten Dishes" Is the title of a little book very appositely published by Messrs. Angus and Robertson, …
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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 …
An entertainment for the 16th Australian Symposium on Gastronomy, October 2008 Down came a jumbuck to drink from the waterhole Up jumped the swagman and shouted in glee And he sang as he …
A paper presented at the 2nd Australia’s Homosexual Histories Conference at the University of Melbourne, 5-6 November 1999 Two moments in the global history of fags, dykes and food resonate across …
2021 Feeding 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 …
DIRTY FOOD
4 August 2023
2021 The bus would stop at the top of the road, pulling over onto the strip of orange dust between the macadam and a grassy verge bordering the gutter. The gutter, …
Charlie and the Chestnut Forage
4 August 2023
2005 Charlie 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 2018 For the first years of my life in Australia, I felt that the food I had grown up on was very …
Diggings 19 July 2023
19 July 2023
A rose in every cheek: 100 years of Vegemite, the wartime spread that became an Aussie icon There are roughly 22 million jars of Vegemite manufactured in the original Melbourne factory every year. According …
In May 1913, the Australian Town and Country Journal published in its ‘Questions Answered’ column this response to an inquiry by G.F.T. of Inverell for a recipe for rosella chutney: Rosella …
Lately I have become interested in walking down some of the lesser worn paths of ingredients, methods of preparing them and their contribution to Australian cuisine. I am interested in …
Diggings 26 June 2023
26 June 2023
Final curtain call for Fantales Australians will farewell Fantales – the iconic chocolate covered caramels famed for movie star stories on the wrappers – with plans announced today to cease producing the lollies next …