June 2023 A 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 …
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, …
Jacqui Newling, Paul van Reyk and Alison Vincent First published in Petit Propos Culinaires 125, April 2023 The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the Many, as well as the Upper Ten …
Strawberry Curry Is a Modern Twist on an Old Tradition If a strawberry curry sounds unusual, it’s not: It’s a British take on a long tradition of fresh fruit curries that …
The WHO says we shouldn't bother with artificial sweeteners for weight loss or health. Is sugar better? In people with diabetes, artificial sweeteners did not improve or worsen any clinical …
Paul van Reyk TAMARIND FRUIT - Would some subscriber of the 'Sunday Times’ inform me how I could make use of tamarind fruit for home consumption? — E. W. Rockhampton, Queensland …
April 2022 It was the kind of observation on Australian history by a new chef that ever-so-slightly irks the food historian in me and sets me sleuthing for the evidence to …
Tartare Sauce Put the yolks of two raw eggs into a basin with half a saltspoonful of salt, a little pepper, and half a teaspoonful each of French and English made …
April 2023 I came across someone the other day who has never eaten sweet and sour pork. The more I tried to explain what it was the more she looked bewildered …
As this is NAIDOC Week (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) the lead articles in this edition of Diggings deal with Indigenous Australian foodways. The first four of these …
Tasmania pledges 10-year ‘reset’ for $1 billion salmon industry Tasmania’s heavily scrutinised salmon industry will undergo a “reset” under a state government plan to increase land-based fish farming and operations in …
Turning 11 acres of a NSW ‘dumping site’ into a world-class farm Hilly, overgrown and riven by two creeks, it had become a dumping site since the previous tenants abandoned their …
World-first research confirms Australia’s forests became catastrophic fire risk after British invasion Contemporary approaches to forest management in Australia are based on suppression – extinguishing bushfires once they’ve started, or seeking to prevent …
