[Sca-cooks] OT - G'day Lords and Ladies and more on pies

[Johnna Holloway]

There's the University of Adelaide’s Research Centre for the History  
of Food and Drink and their seminars and papers.

Barbara Santich edited a volume called In the Land of the Magic  
Pudding: A Gastronomic Miscellany
  which looks at Australian foods.

Or as described here:
"In the Land of the Magic Pudding is a fabulous potpourri of popular  
writing by our top writers, on the theme of Australian cooking and  
eating, the vital ingredient being the entertaining quality of the  
prose. Through fiction, journalism, books of etiquette, letters,  
diaries and travel accounts, the anthology presents wonderful reading  
fodder from the eighteenth century (when Joseph Banks recorded his  
experiences of eating indigenous foods) to the present day. " It's up  
in part on Google books, inc. the famous cover.
Wakefield Press publishes a number of interesting historical cookery  
books.
http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/home.php?cat=8

Johnnae

On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:02 AM, V O wrote:
> My roommate and I just had a discussion about Australian foods, as  
> an area of
> foods that we do not really have much information about.  What 'Are'  
> foods that
> are common to your country, not really found outside?  Things that  
> you would
> take a foreigner to try to show off the local cuisine?  And are  
> there any cook
> books you would recommend to get these recipes?
>
> Thanks, Mirianna