1. Sweet Treats from Ada de la Harpe
Ada was my grandmother and I am chuffed that three of her
recipes were selected for inclusion on Sweet
Treats from Around the World, K & T Roufs, ABC-Clio, July 2014.
Ada de La Harpe's
Christmas Cake (Sri Lanka)(Courtesy of her grandson, Paul van Reyk, from The Recipe Book of Ada de la Harpe, a Sri Lankan Dutch Burgher Woman, 2013. Sydney, Australia: Privately Published, pp. 95-97. Accessed July 27, 2013.
http://www.paulvanreyk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/The-Recipe-Book-of-Ad-de-la-Harpe_First-edition_2013.pdf
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This is an adaptation of the transcription of Ada de La Harpe's Christmas Cake recipe provided by Paul van Reyk. For a beautiful facsimile version of the original from Ada's "Cookery Book" see van Reyk (2013), pp. 95-97.
Ada de La Harpe's "Singapore Pudding," and Sago Pudding (Sri Lanka)
(Courtesy of her grandson, Paul van Reyk, from The Recipe Book of Ada de la Harpe, a Sri Lankan Dutch Burgher Woman, 2013. Sydney, Australia: Privately Published, p. 100. Accessed July 27, 2013.)
http://www.paulvanreyk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/The-Recipe-Book-of-Ad-de-la-Harpe_First-edition_2013.pdf
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Ada de La Harpe's "Sweets" (Sweetened "Cajunuts" [Cashews], Sri Lanka)
(Courtesy of her grandson, Paul van Reyk, from The Recipe Book of Ada de la Harpe, a Sri Lankan Dutch Burgher Woman, 2013. Sydney, Australia: Privately Published, pp. 99-100. Accessed 27 July 2013.)
http://www.paulvanreyk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/The-Recipe-Book-of-Ad-de-la-Harpe_First-edition_2013.pdf
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2. Asian Food Heritage Project
Dear all, I have become involved in this project (ta Jean J )which is only at the
inception stage of putting together a proposal for project funding. The basic
thrust is to do for Asian and South Asian food material what is being done more
thoroughly in recent years for foods of Europe and the Americas. I am looking
for any leads any of you have for anyone in academe or otherwise doing research
or projects around identifying heritage foods in South Asian and Asian foods
and/or preserving/propagating etc. Happy to send more info to those interested
though the parameters of the project are still being refined.
But mainly as I am not in academe and so have bugger all
wherewithal to do the kinds of searches that might prove fruitful, I am hoping
some of you may have 6 or less or even more degrees of separation from people
who I might get onto. David Thompson is already in the fold.
3. Are broccoli stalks the next kale?
‘If you're looking for tomorrow's hot ingredients—and today's top values—start with the compost bin. How different foods go from trash to treat to trite.’
Ta to Helen Campbell for finding this article. Most of you
know wasting perfectly edible and indeed delicious bits of animals, fruit and
veg has been a bugbear of mine for some
time so it’s great to see any article that promotes people repurposing
pre-compost. One of my treasured gifts is a copy of Tasty Dishes from Waste Items by Argona
Reejhsingani published in India in 1973 which often provides inspiration as I
stare at the waste on my kitchen table. The things she does with vegetable
peels alone are dazzling.
4. Gut reaction Part 1
Thrilling first part of a two part Catalyst program looking
at one of my favourite subjects - gut bacteria, and in this program how
changing diet changes the gut bacteria profile and may well change your health.
Oh, and a lot of it is filmed in my new favouritest Sydney building, the
Charles Perkins Centre at Sydney Uni which I have only so far seen from outside
but will now hurry and go into and marvel at its interior used to stunning
effect as a stand in for the gut itself.
5. Duopoly Money
“No other country in the world has as large a percentage of
its dry groceries market controlled by two chains’, says (Nick) Xenophon. “We
have been bums to allow that to happen.”
This article by Malcolm Knox in The Monthly August 2014 is
an excellent expose of ‘Coles, Woolworths and the price we pay for their
domination’. I thought I knew all there was about it but gees I was wrong. I
had no idea of the extent to which their ‘vertical’ integration has led to them
dominating so many other sectors than food distribution. It not matter to some
of you, but I am shocked to know that Wesfarmers which owns Coles also owns
Bunnings the mega hardware store that has in the last months become the ONLY
hardware option for many of us in the Inner West as our local stores close
down. Given Bunnings has a growing garden section I am worried about how long
some of the small independent nurseries are going to be able to hold out also.
Is there meant to be a link for the last item in the compost? I am with you on being appalled about the lack of hardware stores; not only have the small independents vanished, even Mitre Ten seems to have become a rare species.
ReplyDeleteI noticed a broccoli stalks stir fry in today's food supplement in SMH, that looked pretty good. I love eating them raw anyway, they never go in the bin - and will never go in the worm farm I've just discovered some of my neighbours have started up.
Off to read all your links now - especially your Grandma's recipes.