The Bland or the Bountiful? Notes on Australian Dining Between the Wars

Authors

  • Paul van Reyk Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28134

Keywords:

Australia, intra-war, diet, ingredients, cookbooks, White Australia, British food diaspora

Abstract

Looks at what people now remember as "plain" cooking in Australia between the wars, surveying popular cookbooks of the time. Those cookbooks would have mostly been used by White Australians even though three ethnic groups -- Germans, Chinese and Italians -- had formed significant immigrant populations in Australia but this time. Of these, it seems only Italian foodways had some influence.

Author Biography

  • Paul van Reyk, Independent Scholar

    Paul van Reyk is a regular contributor to the Australian Symposium on Gastronomy and has published articles in Gastronomica, Artlink, and Divine. Paul publishes a monthly ebulletin Compost. Paul has also published an ebook facsimile copy of the Cookbook of Ada de la Harpe.

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Published

2016-09-01

Issue

PPC 106 (2016)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

van Reyk, Paul. 2016. “The Bland or the Bountiful? Notes on Australian Dining Between the Wars”. Petits Propos Culinaires, September, 108-18. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28134.