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The Upside-Down Pudding: A Small Book of Christmas Feasts

Colin Bannerman

Christmas in Australia is the result of a bold cultural and culinary experiment. They took an English winter pudding (and the festival that went with it) and transported it halfway round the globe. There they added lashings of American romance, European tradition, Australian patriotism, and commercialism, and boiled it in the Australian summer. Its progress through the years has interested journalists, novelists, sermon-makers, shopkeepers and food writers. Many of their observations have found their way onto the shelves of the National Library of Australia.

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Colin Bannerman is a food historian living in Canberra. His publication A Friend in the Kitchen: Old Australian Cookery Books (1996) examined Federation cookery, and he is also one of the authors of Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia’s Culinary History published by the National Library of Australia. He is currently completing a doctorate on the impact of print media in the development of Australian food culture and eating, c.1850–1920.

ISBN 0 642 10716 5
1999, pb, B6, 64 pp, b&w and colour illus.

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