A paper for 'Cooking and Eating in times of adversity', New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy & Food History, November 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jxBDNdZoCk final nov 2020Download bitter-bread-and-sour-nov-2020Download
Support for Indigenous wildlife management in Australia to enable sustainable use
I recently came across this 2010 article that raised issues I had not considered about maintaining Indigenous Australians access to customary foods. I was particularly interested in the discussion on the impact of new technologies that make hunting and fishing more productive which can in turn to over-harvesting and the discussion that follows on how …
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Not a hollyhock in sight: Home gardens of three women in remote Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
In February 2020 I presented a paper at the 13th New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy and Food held at the Hamilton Gardens. In this paper I look at the gardens of two women in remote Australia to see what light they throw on how women lived in remote Australia in the later 19th and early …
Antipodean Psittacophagy
First published in Gastronomica 5:2, Spring 2005 Bruce Boehrer, writing in a recent issue of Gastronomica, sought to answer the question why parrot has disappeared from the world table. The substantial part of his argument is as follows: ‘Prior to 1492 there existed a tradition of classical psittacophagy (parrot eating), interrupted by the relative scarcity …
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