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It was the kind of observation on Australian history by a new chef that ever-so-slightly irks the food historian in me and sets me sleuthing for the evidence to back up it up. Phil Wood, chef-owner of up-scale restaurant Ursula’s, in Paddington in an April 2022 article by journalist Max Brearley on a revival of …
Continue reading "Jelly Crystals and Evaporated Milk: On the trail of the ‘Australian flummery’"
Pic: Paul van Reyk A bumper edition starting off with more on Indigenous water sovereignty and the exclusions of Indigenous voices from discussions on climate change amelioration; a delightful article by Jacqui Newling on coming to literal grips with discomforting food; more on the appalling conditions in aged care; perspectives on food scarcity and more. …
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; …
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