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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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The making of my multicultural palate and the multicultural Australian table
21 September 2024

September 2024 Kellogs cornflakes were my first exposure to non-Sri Lankan food. (I don’t count the food on board the Oriana, the ship in which we travelled to Australia, as it …

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‘We never rolled ourselves up in our blankets more satisfied with a repast.’ Food in the expedition of Ludwig Leichhardt from Moreton Bay to Port Essington 1844-1845
19 September 2024

September 2024 I first came across Ludwig Leichhardt in High School where he was just one of the white explorers I studied in my Australian history class. I came across him …

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Pantry Essentials
11 September 2024

September 2024 I put a call out for my Facebook Friends to nominate ‘What five things are essential in your pantry’, leaving pantry undefined. These were the answers. Read on.

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Diggings 12 August 2024
7 September 2024

The native marsupials are sniffing out and gorging themselves on thousands of dollars of black, or French, truffles a night, causing a headache for farmers in the emerging Australian truffle …

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Diggings 8 September 2024
7 September 2024

Hooke(d). Restoring George England Hooke’s 1905 fruit preserving book to Australian Food History In 1905 George England Hooke published Australian Fruit Preserving. A Practical Treatise on the Best Methods With Instructions …

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Anzac Soup, Curried Galahs,  and Sea Weed Jelly. The Western Mail’s 1938 Bush Recipe Competition
5 September 2024

August 2024 In March 1938, the Western Mail (a weekly newspaper in Western Australia) announced the opening of a ‘Bush Recipes Competition’. Our new competition “Bush Recipes” is open from now until …

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