Some ambitious people try emu. 50 Years of bush camp meals

13 August 2026

‘Cooking in the bush is no longer just damper made from water and flour accompanied by a rabbit or kangaroo stew’ writes Cathy Savage in Australian Bush Cooking. The book is a primer for camping and the meals associated with that not, as one might think, about domestic cooking in the bush.

The subject of food when camping has a long history and has over that time been more than damper and roo stew.

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Paul van Reyk
My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.