https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1010553155639808&fref=nf
Hope you can open this link. Wow factor major at around the 59 sec mark.
Harriet Wicken
Jacqui Newling drew my attention to a recipe for Devilled Meat in Phillip E Muskett’s The Art of Living in Australia. All of Part II of the book – Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information, is given as authored by Mrs H. Wicken, Diplomee of the National Training School for Cookery, London; Lecturer on Cookery to the Technical College Sydney. There are six other cook books authored by her listed in Trove at http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/637214?c=people
Does anyone have any biographical information on her?
The Foods of England Project
Thanks heaps to Jacqui Newling for putting me on to this site. I am looking forward to exploring curries tho navigating it is something of a challenge and the red check wall paper is a tad...overwhelming.
http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/
Are ready-to-eat boiled eggs the most pointless convenience food ever?
‘Yowk, an egg which simply needs hot water poured over it before it’s ready to eat with your toast, has arrived. How on earth did it make it to market – and are there any convenience supermarket foods that are really worth the money?’
In PNG, hard boiled eggs in their shell are sold everywhere and make a great snack as they always have. But this...Frankenegg! Still, I am prepared to take nominations for even more pointless convenience foods.
Food-related deaths and illnesses to no longer be reported to the ACCC
'Food-related deaths and disease outbreaks will no longer have to be reported to the consumer watchdog by product makers and sellers under new federal laws, "appalling" public health experts.
In line with the Abbott government's war on red tape, Small Business Minister Bruce Billson pushed a bill on Wednesday to remove the need for food businesses to alert the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission when they become aware of safety problems.'
This is NOT a war on red tape. It is a war against accountability from Big Food.
Planet to Plate. The Earth Hour Cookbook
‘This beautiful book celebrates Australia’s wonderful fresh produce and the people who work so hard to produce it. It also highlights the need to solve climate change so future generations can enjoy the healthy food we have been lucky to grow up with’.
The egreious grammatical clanger in that statement notwithstanding, this book put out by WWF, Earth Hour and the Bendigo Bank pretty much doeswat it says it wants to do. There are short first person narratives from farmers talking about the impact of climate change, or their fear of its impact, on their particular crop – canola, pistachios, beef, oysters for example – with little sippets of what the impact of global warming is likely to be on other crops not covered by the farmers –like beetroot, honey, potatoes ,kale (tho the risk with that one is more like ‘bring it on!!!’ - and a slew of recipes from the usual and not so usual suspects. The photography is excellent, moving away from the high gloss over produced food pics to blokes with tractors, sheilas with forklifts, working clobber hanging, fields, forests, pigs, salmon tiddlers and such. And there are cute illustratoins too. What’s not to like?
Farm to Table Cycle
‘Farm to Table Cycle: A Journey for Change is a 16-day, 400-mile solo bicycle and photography journey launched by national non-profit Wholesome Wave to raise awareness about local food systems.’
Thanks to Colin Sheringham for directing to me to this site. Love the pun on ‘cycle’. Got all mushy watching the video http://www.farmtotablecycle.com/updates/2015/1/21/food-is-our-solution-farm-to-table-cycle-video.
One of the things in the latter that struck me was the community markets where the majority of buyers are on some form of government assistance. Anyone know of any recent research on who goes to farmers’ markets in Aus – I’m betting the picture would be quite different, but then I only go to the inner city markets and have no idea who goes to those at say Warwick Farm or in Byron.
Food can’t fix everything as someone asserts at the start of the video, but not a lot can be fixed is we don’t fix feeding us sustainably.
Paul van Reyk
253 Trafalgar St.
Petersham 2049
PO Box 221
Petersham 2049
Ph: 0419 435 418
Email: pvanreyk@optusnet.com.au
‘"You must never lose your beautiful sense of outraged injustice. alright? Keep it informed and challenge it, but never lose it."
First Dog on the Moon
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