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25.01.2022 ...and another post about that divisive ingredient....
24.01.2022 Happy World Pizza Day everyone! Here's a picture of the first Pizza Hut - not that I'm suggesting you celebrate with the fast food chain's offering. We're planning a foray to the Grand Hotel in Richmond, much loved for its Italian dining room and the pizzas in the more casual Piccolo Grand.
20.01.2022 The original Big Pineapple - made out of pineapples.
19.01.2022 Growing up in the '50s we used to toast crumpets in front of the open fire in the lounge room. The favourite way to eat them was just with butter, pepper and salt.
18.01.2022 Another milestone. Yes, it's good to see pubs and restaurants reopening in Melbourne but it won't feel normal until we get our Bunnings sausage sizzle!
18.01.2022 Tomorrow is 12th night and in the apple orchards of Britain people will be quaffing cider, shooting guns and howling at apple trees. The old custom, called apple wassailing, is supposed to produce a bountiful harvest. It happens in Tasmania's Huon Valley too - but not until July.
17.01.2022 Gordon Fong was a pioneer of frozen Chinese meals in Australia. He founded what was probably the first range of Chinese meals in the small NSW town of Tingha in 1967 and despite the challenges of transporting his goods via the New England Highway was soon supplying supermarkets in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
16.01.2022 It seems milk-drinking was considered barbaric by the ancient Romans and even in the middle ages the English looked down on the Dutch love of dairy, one text declaring that "A Dutchman is a lusty, fat, two legged cheese-worm. And as for butter, even into the 20th century in Japan Westerners were sometimes called "butter stinkers".
14.01.2022 It's over, people. Sizzler is no more. In a sign of the times, the last Sizzler closed on 15 November. I can't say I'll be weeping over it, but it was the childhood favourite of a whole generation. Maybe it was COVID that dealt the final blow, but I think the clock was ticking long before that.
13.01.2022 Tonight's lucky dinner?
13.01.2022 In a recent conversation with a journalist we discussed why most Australians don't eat goat - a result, I guess, of the English tradition that favours lamb. Similarly, few Australians of European origin would ever have tried camel, although a market for this meat, well known to many of Middle Eastern or North African origin, could help solve an environmental problem.
12.01.2022 It's going to be 30 degrees in Melbourne today. Just the sort of day when school milk curdled in its crates. I consider the discontinuation of school milk one of the major achievements of the Whitlam government back in the '70s.
12.01.2022 We take bananas for granted, except when a cyclone wipes out the crop. But in Britain during WWII the lack of the imported fruit led people to make fake banana out of a common root vegetable.
11.01.2022 If you thought fast food was a modern invention, think again. The thermopolium in ancient Pompeii dispensed a range of hot foods including pork, fish, snails and beef. And it come complete with colourful images showing customers what was available.
11.01.2022 I'm a peanut butter addict. But I've never thought of putting it on a burger. And the American name for this extraordinary combination doesn't make it appealing either - Guberberger!
10.01.2022 Has anyone, anywhere, who is not a food stylist, ever made something that looks like this? I think not.
09.01.2022 We think of barra as typically Australian, but it isn't always the case.
09.01.2022 My New Year's resolution is to eat healthier, so I think I'll start with ice cream. After all, Cicero endorsed it, according to this old cinema slide.
08.01.2022 I'm not sure whether Kellogg's ever sold their PEP vitamins in Australia, but this American ad is a hilarious example of ads you definitely couldn't run today. I guess back then the copywriters were all male.
08.01.2022 Ready, set...andiamo! Tomorrow is world pizza day so you have every excuse to indulge in a high-carb extravaganza. I'm from an Aussie generation that remembers life before pizza, followed by the time when it was regarded as a gourmet treat you'd drive across town for. And when it was produced by Italian pizza-makers who cared, rather than American-owned chains. Fortunately there's a new generation of proper pizza chefs out there so you don't have to settle for the mass-produced item.
07.01.2022 I'm not sure why I keep this cache of cutlery rescued from my parents' house. Will we ever use fish knives and forks? Or the three pronged oyster fork? Let alone the butter knife and the bread fork. Cutlery used to be a lot more complicated than it is today.
03.01.2022 What barbecues were like in the pre-Weber era. With or without the Saos.
01.01.2022 There's one place in Australia where it's traditional to celebrate Thanksgiving - no visitors from the US required. Black Friday probably doesn't mean much there though.
