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Every year from 1867 - 1967 in the weeks before and during Lent, readers of Australia's press were provided with recipes to help them both abstain from meat and fast. In an age when major Christian denominations no longer place such an emphasis on either during Lent it may not be immediately obvious why this …
Continue reading "Not Meatless Monotony: One hundred years of Lenten Fare in Australia"
Easter approaching I have been doing research into Lenten food recipes in Australian newspapers and magazines. This is the first advertisement for the Lenten recipe book of the prolific Harriet Wicken that I have come across. A bumper issue kicking off with a story about an experiment I am avid to know the results of; …
First up in this edition of Diggings - I have for some time now been trying to find out how much government funding for Research and Development (R & D) goes into native food projects. The answer from friends in the R & D business is that it appears no-one keeps any data on this. …
For generations, Australian families have dined at home, with varying frequency, on some version of spaghetti with a sauce of tomato and minced beef. Indeed, spaghetti bolognese, or spag bol to give it its typically Australian abbreviated name, is so entrenched a part of Australian food culture that it regularly secures a place in polls …
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