May 2024In 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 …
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Not a feed for a hungry man: a sketch of okra in Australia
18 August 2023
2023Okra are seen in the markets more and more but are a relative newcomer.The Australian Women’s Weekly 1981The story of Anglo-Celtic Australian cuisine from the first days of the colony …
In May 1913, the Australian Town and Country Journal published in its ‘Questions Answered’ column this response to an inquiry by G.F.T. of Inverell for a recipe for rosella chutney:Rosella …
A la recherche du sweets perdu: An obit for Fantales
26 June 2023
June 2023A piece of my childhood was stolen from me on June 20, 2023. Nestlé Oceania Confectionery announced that it would cease making Fantales in July 2023.Fantales – hard sticky …
Jacqui Newling, Paul van Reyk and Alison VincentFirst published in Petit Propos Culinaires 125, April 2023The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the Many, as well as the Upper Ten …
From chutneys to constipation: The culinary and other uses of tamarind in Australia 1787 – 1909
2 June 2023
Paul van ReykTAMARIND FRUIT - Would some subscriber of the 'Sunday Times’ inform me how I could make use of tamarind fruit for home consumption? — E. W. Rockhampton, Queensland …
April 2022It was the kind of observation on Australian history by a new chef that ever-so-slightly irks the food historian in me and sets me sleuthing for the evidence to …
Chillies – A Survey of Published Recipes 1871 – 1921
30 April 2023
Tartare SaucePut the yolks of two raw eggs into a basin with half a saltspoonful of salt, a little pepper, and half a teaspoonful each of French and English made …