"The Social Food Project aims to create a more connected food system through interactive food events that have a focus on sustainability, education and story-telling." Came across this site via the Farmer to Table …
I love this pic - bottom panel is South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill raising a glass in the same pub in which the then South Australian Premier Don Dunstan raised …
A rainbow bagel with 'unicorn cheese' from the Brooklyn Bagel Boys because... 'Alarm bells we cannot ignore': world hunger rising for first time this century “If you look at the 815 million …
Paul van Reyk, Sept 2017 It's a delicious early Spring indulgence, a day's worth of thinking about food from the perspectives of a broad spectrum of writers on food - journalists, …
Given the lead digging in this edition, how could I resist posting this image of Hillevi Rombin, Miss Universe 1955, promoting National Kraut and Frankfurter Week in Chicago. Berlin 24/7 What’s …
Thanks to Alison Vincent for directing, me, and now you, dear reader, to her terrific blog post on eating in Berlin. A first hand report on currywurst, yes, but much …
A paper presented at the 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, Melbourne 2016 In The Sirian Experiments, the third novel in the Canopus in Argos: Archives quintet, its narrator Ambien II at …
This tiny country feeds the world. Really? Interesting piece picked up by Rachel Laudan, author of the very good CUISINE AND EMPIRE: COOKING IN WORLD HISTORY
Alison Vincent This paper was presented at the 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, Melbourne, December, 2016. It is reprinted in Compost with her permission. In response to the increasing consumer interest in …
I couldn't resist posting this very clever combo of food and politics - a touch of humour in what is a pretty heavy edition of Diggins. The Forgotten History of Black …
This exhibition of rare books reveals the rich and fascinating history of brewing. Commencing as a domestic craft primarily performed by women and changing to the scientifically measurable occupation which …
I couldn't resist posting this pic having spent quite some time as a young thing watching Esther Williams doing her thing. How Norway is selling out-of-date food to help tackle waste ‘ A …
John Newton [Note from John: Still don't remember writing it but could easily have done so although the reference to Pei at the end sort of brings it to the present. …
