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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2024 I’ve got guests coming to early supper tonight. So today will be spent provisioning for supper and also some of my larder foodstuffs need replenishing. This is the provisioning plan. First …
2024 I had occasion lately to eat a stick of cabanossi, a thin, dry, red, spiced and smoked crumpled sausage. It produced a food memory of lounge rooms and wine bars …
THE Cookbook and Butter Churn Quest
21 May 2024
A book printed in 1659 and a churn brought from Ireland last century have won £100 each for their owners in our quest to find the oldest cookbook and butter …
2024 I was gustatorily surprised in a nice way. There on the menu at a local bar was an item called Starving Artist’s Plate. It consisted of slices of cabanossi, cubes …
May 2024 Rifling through a collection of recipes and other food related paraphernalia I had bought in a bundle from an antique dealer, I came across a set of 38 recipe …
May 2024 In April 1834 the Hobart Town Courier published ‘Some Remarks On the Roots and Other Indigenous Esculents of Van Diemen's Land’. I think I can safely claim this as …
4 April 2024 Lately I have become interested in how recipes published in cookery print media - columns and feature articles in newspapers and magazines, cookery books – shaped Australians’ understanding …
Diggings 15 April 2024
15 April 2024
This loophole in your food delivery app may be a hazard to your health In November 2022, it was recognised by all states and territories that a national approach to menu …
What was your favourite treat as a kid?
9 April 2024
April 2024 That’s the question I put to my Facebook followers. The range of the 67 responses was fascinating, with more response in areas I was not expecting at all and …
Paul van Reyk March 2024 One of the unexplored areas of Australian culinary history is the place of colonial nurserymen (and the documentary evidence is that they were all men) in …
SAOs: The ways of an iconic Australian biscuit
31 March 2024
2024 My first encounter with a SAO biscuit was soon after arriving in Australia in the early 1960’s. I had never seen or eaten a biscuit like it. A bubbled surface, …
A National Dish?
25 March 2024
March 2024 What would you say was the Australian National Dish? Posing the question and asking for nominations is sort of going where angels fear to tread. But that’s what I …