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Eating Skippy: The kangaroo at the Australian table
24 February 2025

February 2025 There is a slur on Australia at times with being told that Australia is the only country which eats the animals on its court of arms or flag – …

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Queer Eye for the Maloney Guy
24 February 2025

July 2000 When I first read Oh, for a French Wife!, the book written by Ted Maloney and my gaydar twitched. When I read the Sydney Morning Herald obituary notice of …

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A sixpenny dinner at the Colonial Exhibition of 1886
23 February 2025

February 2025 The Australian Agents-General propose to startle the culinary connoisseurs of London with a series of sixpenny dinners at the Colonial Exhibition of 1886, the viands being exclusively Australian. …

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Pies to pavlovas. The culinary landscape of the Australian Hostess Cookbook (1969)
21 February 2025

February 2025 In I969 the Australian Hostess Cookbook was published, edited by Hanna Pan. The Cookbook is in the form of a contributary cookbook of dinners from 40 winners of the …

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Chutney Men, Moral Panics and White Australia
13 February 2025

February 2025 In 1891 Adam Mahomed, John Silva and Agnes Fleming were raided by police on the basis of ‘numerous complaints that the house (in which they lived) … was the …

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A Patchwork of Recipes. A look into a domestic recipe scrapbook c1967 – c1973
10 February 2025

February 2025 It’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 2025 I couldn’t resist it. The GG Chocolate 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 …

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Culinary Diversity in Community Cookbooks 1970 – 1980
6 February 2025

February 2025 On 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: …

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‘You could and should eat them into eradication’. A review of ‘Eat The Invaders’ Series 1.
28 January 2025

January 2025 In 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 …

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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 back Murray crayfish disappeared from South Australia sometime in the past 40 years. Targeted surveys …

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A damper tale
18 January 2025

January 2025 I 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 …

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Goulash, Eisbien, and Saeurkraut. Eating ‘Continental’ pre-1947
3 January 2025

December 2024 There 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 – …

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To the Lentil Burger. A brief history
29 December 2024

December 2024 I 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 …

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