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 …
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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 …
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'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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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My hybrid Sri Lankan Christmas cake
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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 …
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