Symposium on our Food with particular reference to Australian practices and tastes over more than two hundred years

Abstract

For more than a decade 'Australian Folklore' has featured reflective articles and reports concerned with food practices in this country, and, in view of receipt of more interesting notes and thoughts than usual in the last two years, these have been collected up together for this 'anniversary' issue. They are introduced by a pioneering article on celebrity chefs in the years when the accelerating changes in Australian taste again experienced a further great sea change. In the event, the shorter pieces make reflections on earlier styles that are still recalled and, perhaps, lamented for their passing.