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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.
Information
on author:
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.

Last
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4 March, 2002
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