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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 – …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
