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Looking for Flavour
The author, one of Australia's most respected and original food writers looks at Australian food and how we rate in the culinary world scheme.
The Colonial Kitchen
The first Europeans to settle on the Aboriginal land that would become known as Australia arrived in 1788. From the first these colonists were accused of ineptitude when it came to feeding themselves: as legend has it they nearly starved to death because they were hopeless agriculturists and ignored indigenous foods. As the colony developed Australians developed a reputation as dreadful cooks and uncouth eaters who gorged themselves on meat and disdained vegetables. By the end of the nineteenth century the Australian diet was routinely described as one of poorly cooked mutton, damper, cabbage, potatoes and leaden puddings all washed down with an ocean of saccharine sweet tea: These stereotyp...
Food, Power and Community
Did Jesus cook? Why do Australians eat so much sugar and drink lots of cold beer? Do our foods have regional flavours? When and why did Australian diets start to show American influences? Did women in early modern England drink to much?
True to the Land
Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewardship of the land, to a present where the production and consumption of food is fraught with anxieties and competing priorities. It describes how food production in Australia is subject to the constraints of climate, water, and soil, leading to centuries of unsustainable agricultural practices post-colonization. Australian food history is also the story of its xenophobia and the immigration policies pursued, which continue to undermine the image of Australia as a model multicultural society. This history of Australian food ends on a positive note, however, as Indigenous peoples take increasing control of how their food is interpreted and marketed.
The Senses in Performance
This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance. Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical and historical challenges facing the scholar and the artist. This volume examines the subtle actions of the human senses including taste, touch, smell and vision in all sorts of performances in Western and non-Western traditions, from ritual to theatre, from dance to interactive architecture, from performance art to historical opera. With eighteen original essays brought together by an international ensemble of leading scholars and artists including Richard Schechner and Philip Zarrilli. This covers a variety of disciplinary fields from critical studies to performance studies, from food studies to ethnography from drama to architecture. Written in an accessible way this volume will appeal to scholars and non-scholars interested in Performance/Theatre Studies and Cultural Studies.
Eating in Eighteenth-century Provence
'We have two cuisines in France, that of the north and that of the south', boldly stated the first cookbook directly concerned with southern French cuisine in 1830. This book investigates the reasons for and background to these differences, specifically in Provence. In the absence of cookbooks for the region in the 18th century, it uses innovative methodologies relying on a range of hitherto unexplored primary resources, ranging from household accounts and manuscript recipes to local newspapers and gardening manuals that focus on the actuality of the 18th century Provençal table. The sources emphasise the essentially seasonal and local nature of eating in Provence at this time. In many ways...
Enjoyed for Generations
In 1915, Alfred Haigh opened his first Haigh's store in Adelaide's Beehive Building. From this modest beginning, Haigh's Chocolates has thrived to become Australia's oldest family-owned chocolate maker, and a leader in the art of making premium chocolate from the cocoa bean. Enjoyed for Generations tells the Haigh's story.
Teatimes
In Teatimes, food historian Helen Saberi takes us on a stimulating journey beyond the fine porcelain, doilies, crumpets, and jam into the fascinating and diverse history of tea drinking. From elegant afternoon teas, hearty high teas, and cricket and tennis teas, to funeral teas, cream teas, and many more, Saberi investigates the whole panoply of teatime rituals and ephemera—including tea gardens, tea dances, tea gowns, and tearooms. We are invited to spend time in the sophisticated salons de thé of Paris and the cozy tearooms of the United States; to enjoy the teatime traditions of Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, where housewives prided themselves on ...
Pioneers in Fine-Dining – The Development of Haute Cuisine
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Tourism - Hotel Industry / Catering, grade: A, University of Brighton, language: English, abstract: Throughout the history of the 16th to 19th century, the art of living has changed majorly and simultaneously has the evolution of gastronomy. Different cultures and countries followed different approaches and a broad range of cuisines could be found throughout the world. This research aims to review existing literature on the history, major establishments and the development of haute cuisine, which started a significant revolution in terms of gastronomic views. Haute-Cuisine, or fine-dining, is based on great achievements of gastronomic figures, such as Marie-Antonin Carême and was redefined by known personalities, such as Auguste Escoffier. The history of fine dining, which reaches back to aristocratic families in Italy, the beginnings in France and the acquainted way of conducting haute-cuisine are furthermore critically analysed on the basis of existing research.
The Companion to the English and Australian Cookbook
A gastronomic miscellany of English and colonial Australian cuisine, along with continental and Hebrew cookery.
