A Fruit Salad Story
    8 October 2024

    October 2024Idly thinking the other day as I am wont to do my thoughts turned to the approaching summer and fruit salads.  I wondered what the story of fruit salad …

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    Small Mulch


    ‘A practical and extremely interesting collection of Chinese recipes.’ Roy Geechoun and ‘Cooking the Chinese Way’
    4 October 2024

    September 2024In 1948, Roy Geechoun published Cooking the Chinese Way. It contained ‘thirty popular recipes with detailed and precise instructions so that you can now cook real Chinese meals at …

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    Diggings 29 September 2024
    29 September 2024

    Why a global cocoa crunch will sour chocolate for years to come Chocolate lovers already feeling the sting of high prices should brace for worse: costs will continue to rise as …

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    The making of my multicultural palate and the multicultural Australian table
    21 September 2024

    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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    ‘We never rolled ourselves up in our blankets more satisfied with a repast.’ Food in the expedition of Ludwig Leichhardt from Moreton Bay to Port Essington 1844-1845
    19 September 2024

    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 …

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    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.

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    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 …

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    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 …

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    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 …

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    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 …

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    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, …

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    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 …

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    The Imperial Bushman’s Manual of Cookery 1900: Looking for answers
    8 August 2024

    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, …

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