August 2023 No farm should be without rosellas. They are easily grown, they bear heavily, they make an excellent preserve, and are infinitely preferred to the mulberry for puddings. The fruit …
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Wild Weed Pie
5 August 2023
I never ate Janni Kyritsis’ food at Berowra Waters; for lack of the dosh, not for lack of desire. It wasn’t until his stint at MG Garage that I had …
Waste
5 August 2023
“The rich must stop consuming so much”, says Hervé Guyomard of the French agricultural and development research agency INRA. This is one of three conditions for being able to feed …
Wherefore to Dover?
5 August 2023
Good question. For the 15th Symposim of Australian Gastronomy being held there. At Snug, I see a chalkboard sign promising half a smoked salmon for $15. It’s from the local butcher …
Finding fungi
5 August 2023
Question: How many kinds of native truffle are there in Australia? Answer: 1000 and still counting. Question: How many of them are edible? Answer: Native furry things eat them all, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …