2024I’ve got guests coming to early supper tonight. So today will be spent provisioning for supper and also some of my larder foodstuffs need replenishing. This is the provisioning plan.First …
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2024I had occasion lately to eat a stick of cabanossi, a thin, dry, red, spiced and smoked crumpled sausage. It produced a food memory of lounge rooms and wine bars …
THE Cookbook and Butter Churn Quest
21 May 2024
A book printed in 1659 and a churn brought from Ireland last century have won £100 each for their owners in our quest to find the oldest cookbook and butter …
2024I was gustatorily surprised in a nice way. There on the menu at a local bar was an item called Starving Artist’s Plate. It consisted of slices of cabanossi, cubes …
May 2024Rifling through a collection of recipes and other food related paraphernalia I had bought in a bundle from an antique dealer, I came across a set of 38 recipe …
May 2024In April 1834 the Hobart Town Courier published ‘Some Remarks On the Roots and Other Indigenous Esculents of Van Diemen's Land’. I think I can safely claim this as …
4 April 2024Lately I have become interested in how recipes published in cookery print media - columns and feature articles in newspapers and magazines, cookery books – shaped Australians’ understanding …
Diggings 15 April 2024
15 April 2024
This loophole in your food delivery app may be a hazard to your healthIn November 2022, it was recognised by all states and territories that a national approach to menu …
What was your favourite treat as a kid?
9 April 2024
April 2024That’s the question I put to my Facebook followers. The range of the 67 responses was fascinating, with more response in areas I was not expecting at all and …
Paul van Reyk March 2024One of the unexplored areas of Australian culinary history is the place of colonial nurserymen (and the documentary evidence is that they were all men) in …
SAOs: The ways of an iconic Australian biscuit
31 March 2024
2024My first encounter with a SAO biscuit was soon after arriving in Australia in the early 1960’s. I had never seen or eaten a biscuit like it. A bubbled surface, …
A National Dish?
25 March 2024
March 2024What would you say was the Australian National Dish? Posing the question and asking for nominations is sort of going where angels fear to tread. But that’s what I …
Paul van ReykThe Aristologist: vol 14: p 9- 35. Napier, New Zealand. 2023Recently my culinary curiosity has been circling around the story of the eggplant in Australia. The fat, glossy …