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‘Out of Your Peanut Butter Jar’ … some notes on the uses of peanut butter
28 July 2024

2040 I have become enamoured lately of having a peanut butter and banana smoothie on Saturday mornings at the Sydney Park Kiosk. Indulgent? Yes indeed. Delicious ? Also, yes indeed.  It’s got …

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Passionate : The passionfruit in Australia 1890 – 1940
23 July 2024

2024 I recall my first sighting of a passionfruit – first its bruise-purple colour, then the hundreds (so it seemed) of black seeds inside a saffron yellow gel all sitting in …

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‘Every now and again I lust after them’. A brief story of Chocolate Crackles
20 July 2024

July 2024 We got lucky. Rice Bubbles were released by Kellog’s in 1928. Apparently only Australia and New Zealand calls them ‘Rice Bubbles’. To the rest of the world, they are called …

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Tea and Cookery. The Kandy Koola Story
19 July 2024

July 2024 In 1898 a slim (72 pages) cookery book was published by the Kandy Koola Tea company ‘For Presentation To The Ladies Of Victoria.’ The Kandy Koola Cookery Book and …

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Spag Bol: The making of an Aussie icon
15 July 2024

2002 For generations, Australian families have dined at home, with varying frequency, on some version of spaghetti with a sauce of tomato and minced beef. Indeed, spaghetti bolognaise, or spag bol …

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Flour, tea, sugar and sometimes grog. Food in the stories of Henry Lawson.
6 July 2024

2024 Henry Lawson is arguably the pre-eminent male chronicler through his short stories of outback domestic life and the life of a swagman and a shearer in Australia in the last …

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A Little Adventure: The Festival of Asia 1963 Cook Book
30 June 2024

June 2024 In 1963 the Festival of Asia Committee in New South Wales published a slim volume of 32 x A5 pages simply titled Cook Book. The content was recipes in …

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Diggings 26 JUNE 2024
26 June 2024

Labor’s first extinction For a bureaucratic document, the advice was startling in its direct conclusions: the “primary threat” to the skate was “habitat degradation from sustained reduction of dissolved oxygen” and …

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Twelfth Cakes, Fancy Biscuits and Kangaroo Soup. Pastry cooks and confectioners in the early colonies of Australia
24 June 2024

June 2024 Lately I’ve been fascinated by some aspects of early colonial foodways that I overlooked in my history of food in Australia. As redress, I have written about nurserymen who …

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When Temperance met Commerce: Coffee Palaces of late 19th Century Australia
21 June 2024

2021 The Echuca Coffee Palace, situated at the south end of High Street, on the west side, is a new addition to the architectural features of the town. It consists of …

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The Death of the Democracy Sausage?
17 June 2024

 2018 In November 2018, Bunnings, the Australian hardware retailer issued new guidelines for charities who raise funds from sausage sizzles outside Bunnings’ stores. A sausage sizzle at its simplest is the …

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Be adventurous in your cookery! The influence of Indian Subcontinental cuisines on the Australian plate and palate pre-1950
13 June 2024

June 2024 In March 2024 Australia Post issued a set of four stamps under the heading of The Shared Table. The Overview accompanying the stamps states the intent of the issue: Historically, …

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Do you want chips with that? A brief history of the potato chip in Australia
7 June 2024

2024 Straight after school we headed for the fish shop opposite the station. One or two would stay with our bags at the bus stop while the rest of us went …

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