February 2025It’s an ordinary school exercise book with faint blue lines on each page. The covers are missing. It’s thick with pasted and sticky taped recipes – grown to thrice …
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No ordinary custard. Ice Cream in Australia 1839 – 1939
7 February 2025
February 2025I couldn’t resist it.The GGChocolate ice cream dipped in milk chocolate, malted milk crumb, salted caramel + raspberry.I’ve been writing a lot lately about iconic food in Australia or …
Culinary Diversity in Community Cookbooks 1970 – 1980
6 February 2025
February 2025On the 11th of August 1975 Al Grassby, Australian Minister for Immigration, laid the foundation for a multicultural Australia in a paper given to the Cairnmillar Institute ‘Strategy 2000: …
‘You could and should eat them into eradication’. A review of ‘Eat The Invaders’ Series 1.
28 January 2025
January 2025In January 2025 the Australian Broadcasting Commission (the ABC from hereon) ran the series Eat The Invaders ‘a provocative attempt to turn our unwanted ecological trash into desirable culinary …
Diggings 24 January 2025
24 January 2025
The world’s second largest freshwater crayfish was once plentiful in Australia’s longest river – we’re bringing it backMurray crayfish disappeared from South Australia sometime in the past 40 years. Targeted surveys …
A damper tale
18 January 2025
January 2025I like many other Australians have cooked a damper in the ashes of a fire while camping. I didn’t give any thought to its origin or its place at …
December 2024There is a view that Australian cuisine was woeful before the influx post-World War 2 of migrants from Middle European countries beginning in 1947. Engagement with their cuisines – …
To the Lentil Burger. A brief history
29 December 2024
December 2024I was chomping on a lentil burger the other day and got to wondering when the first recipe for the burger was published.The earliest mention of the lentil burger …
Vegie likes and dislikes. A modest survey.
10 December 2024
December 2024I asked my Facebook friends:What's your least liked vegie and why?What's your most favorite vegie and why?Here’s what they said with comments from me also.Read more.
Lobster Pekin, Szekely Gulyas, and Boeuf Provencale. Promoting culinary diversity in the Australian Women’s Weekly 1933 – 1970
9 December 2024
December 2024One of my interests in Australian food history is seeing how culinary diversity has been promoted through publications - newspapers, magazines, journals and books. This article looks to identifying …
Of prawns, turkey and nutloaf. Christmas food 2024
4 December 2024
December 2024In December 2024 I asked my FB friends: ‘What do you have for Christmas lunch or dinner?’Two captured well the change that is often commented on between generations – …
Doggedly Anglo-Australian: Woolworths Food Fair. Recipes From Famous-Brand Cooks 1963
22 November 2024
November 2024On 1 May 1963 the Australian Women’s Weekly ( AWW from here) and Woolworths (Woollies from here) jointly published a 31-page magazine 'Recipes from Famous Brand Cooks’. It was …
Published in Petits Propos Culinaire 106, Prospect Books, September 2016A group of us have been meeting monthly to talk about food and food writing. At our last meeting the question …