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Vegie likes and dislikes. A modest survey.
10 December 2024

December 2024 I 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.

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Lobster Pekin, Szekely Gulyas, and Boeuf Provencale. Promoting culinary diversity in the Australian Women’s Weekly 1933 – 1970
9 December 2024

December 2024 One 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 …

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Of prawns, turkey and nutloaf. Christmas food 2024
4 December 2024

December 2024 In 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 – …

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Doggedly Anglo-Australian: Woolworths Food Fair. Recipes From Famous-Brand Cooks 1963
22 November 2024

November 2024 On 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 …

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The Bland or the Bountiful? Notes on Australian dining between World Wars 1 & 2
19 November 2024

Published in Petits Propos Culinaire 106, Prospect Books, September 2016 A group of us have been meeting monthly to talk about food and food writing. At our last meeting the question …

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Roboting Yum Cha
17 November 2024

November 2024 I had never been served in a restaurant by a robot before last week. I didn’t even know there was such thing. I came across them in a White …

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Transforming food production and service? A response to the White Paper ‘Food AI: A game changer for Australia’s food and beverage sector’
14 November 2024

October 2024 The White Paper 'Food AI: A game changer for Australia's food and beverage sector' was published in April 2024. The White Paper was the result of ‘a collaborative effort, …

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Diggings 1 November
1 November 2024

Whale is delicious’: The push to revive Japan’s whaling culture In a seminar room at Tokyo’s prestigious Waseda University last month, about 100 students and guests milled around makeshift tables adorned …

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Queer Eye for the Moloney Guy
11 October 2024

Paper presented to the 23rd Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, July 2020 When I first read Oh, for a French Wife!, the 1952 book written by Ted Moloney and Lloyd Ring (Deke) …

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‘Some people may think I’m a cissy’. Men and Cookery Competitions 1904 – 1954
11 October 2024

October 2024 The male sex had taken to cooking, specifically in this case cake making, a considerable time before this. The first instance I found was at Saint Luke’s Christmas Fair …

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A Fruit Salad Story
8 October 2024

October 2024 Idly thinking the other day as I am wont to do my thoughts turned to the approaching summer and fruit salads.  I wondered what the story of fruit salad …

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‘A practical and extremely interesting collection of Chinese recipes.’ Roy Geechoun and ‘Cooking the Chinese Way’
4 October 2024

September 2024 In 1948, Roy Geechoun published Cooking the Chinese Way. It contained ‘thirty popular recipes with detailed and precise instructions so that you can now cook real Chinese meals at …

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Diggings 29 September 2024
29 September 2024

Why a global cocoa crunch will sour chocolate for years to come  Chocolate lovers already feeling the sting of high prices should brace for worse: costs will continue to rise as …

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