September 2024Kellogs cornflakes were my first exposure to non-Sri Lankan food. (I don’t count the food on board the Oriana, the ship in which we travelled to Australia, as it …
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September 2024I first came across Ludwig Leichhardt in High School where he was just one of the white explorers I studied in my Australian history class. I came across him …
Pantry Essentials
11 September 2024
September 2024I put a call out for my Facebook Friends to nominate ‘What five things are essential in your pantry’, leaving pantry undefined. These were the answers.Read on.
Diggings 12 August 2024
7 September 2024
The native marsupials are sniffing out and gorging themselves on thousands of dollars of black, or French, truffles a night, causing a headache for farmers in the emerging Australian truffle …
Diggings 8 September 2024
7 September 2024
Hooke(d). Restoring George England Hooke’s 1905 fruit preserving book to Australian Food HistoryIn 1905 George England Hooke published Australian Fruit Preserving. A Practical Treatise on the Best Methods With Instructions …
Anzac Soup, Curried Galahs, and Sea Weed Jelly. The Western Mail’s 1938 Bush Recipe Competition
5 September 2024
August 2024In March 1938, the Western Mail (a weekly newspaper in Western Australia) announced the opening of a ‘Bush Recipes Competition’.Our new competition “Bush Recipes” is open from now until …
Hooke(d). Restoring George England Hooke’s 1905 fruit preserving book to Australian food history.
23 August 2024
August 2024In 1905 George England Hooke published Australian Fruit Preserving. A Practical Treatise on the Best Methods With Instructions for Making – Jams, Marmalades, Jellies, Conserves, Pickles, Sauces and Chutneys …
The Classic Aussie Burger (CAB). An incomplete history.
23 August 2024
August 2024Order a hamburger with the lot at a café in Australia and you can expect to get a round white bread roll, halved to contain a minced beef patties, …
Diggings 12 August 2024
12 August 2024
The bandicoot bandits causing a truffle kerfuffleThe native marsupials are sniffing out and gorging themselves on thousands of dollars of black, or French, truffles a night, causing a headache for …
2024I recently came into possession of this cookbook that has left me with questions that have gone unanswered in the websites for the Imperial Bushman Contingents in the Boer War, …
2024Lately I have been wondering about the culinary story of the avocado at the Australian table occasioned by finding Hensley Spain’s 1977 The Avocado Cookbook. When was the first recipe …
2024Bill Harney’s Cook Book first published in 1960 is unique among Australian cookery books on two counts. First, it deals almost exclusively with recipes for cooking native animals and plants. …
The Evolution of the Classic Aussie Burger (CAB)
30 July 2024
July 2024Order a hamburger with the lot at a café in Australia and you can expect to get a round white bread roll, halved to contain a beef pattie, a …