Feedback: From Jacqui Newling on Juan Carlo Tomas’ article How to host the perfect Australia Day barbeque
I do love the idea of the Cape of Good Hope being the first fleet's 7-11! That'd be the fancier wine licensed one, with Batavia the nearest corner store. And Carlo's right when he said lamb was the first meat chosen to celebrate their arrival (claim) but it was Feb 7 by the time they'd got everyone unloaded, and the sheep, killed the night before for the officers dinner, was maggot infested by the time they were ready to eat it!
Fish was the first fresh food eaten by first fleeters as they arrived in Botany Bay (between Jan 18-20). And same in Port Jackson, by the scouting party at Camp Cove (Watsons Bay) on Jan 24...
But let's not get facts in the way of a very entertaining Oz Day piece - all good fun!
And I'm keen to see what the gourmet soldier makes of the Anzac biscuit in the WW1 campaign book. [Yet to order it Jacqui - Paul]
Foodie Question
Some of us were talking the other day about the phrase ‘meat and three veg’ to describe typical Australian food of a certain era pejoratively. The question was raised as to whence the term originated. We wondered if it was perhaps a marketing ploy to get consumers to buy some product that supposedly compared more favourably.
I found references as below to ‘meat and two veg’ in the context of British food.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/meat-and-two-veg
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/245600.html
But I can’t find an Australian reference - the Macquarie was of no help.
Anyone out there got any ideas?
Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals
A nifty idea executed simply and well. The Kafka/Metamorphosis is a fave for a forager like me; the madeliene is inevitable but perfect for all that; and I would be more than happy to down Queequeg’s chowder.
Explore the science of flavour
“Freshness is a product attribute that is often linked to quality,” says Rachel, “so the fact that you can manipulate freshness by changing the sound a food makes is very interesting.”
But will anything make flaccid iceberg lettuce taste crisp?
Tasty treat: How we showed fat to be the sixth taste.
‘Various researchers have since identified fatty acid receptors on taste cells as well as identifying the most likely cellular candidates. Even further evidence for a fat taste was the discovery of fat-sensitive neurons in the taste-processing region of the brain.’
Homer Simpson will be un-surprised....’Mmmmm...fat J ‘. Neato description on how to determine whether something can be considered a ‘taste’ along with the used-to-be-four-now-five tastes. Interesting also the relationship between being able to taste fat and BMI.
The Katering Show
Wet rice never was as much fun to prepare. J
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