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Acquired
Tastes:
Celebrating Australia's Culinary History
Compiled
and edited by Paul Cliff, text by Colin Bannerman, with Jackie French,
Marion Halligan, Eric Rolls and Gay Bilson
Acquired
Tastes is a celebration of Australia's culinary history. Colin Bannerman
is joined by feature writers Marion Halligan, Jackie French, Eric Rolls
and Gay Bilson to bring together an array of material from the National
Library of Australia's collections, including its extensive holding of
cookery books, pictorial items, magazines, diaries and oral history recordings.
This vividly
illustrated, full-colour book presents a broad sweep through the history
of Australian cooking from its origins in eighteenth-century English kitchens
and sailing ships to the 'fusion' cuisine of the 1990s restaurants, providing
sample period recipes along the way. It shows the salt beef, damper and
billy tea of pioneering days gradually refined by industry, technology
and education and enriched by migration and the discovery of bush tucker.
Finally,
it looks at food and eating as two of the most powerful symbols of popular
culture, and at how they help to define the way we live, work, enjoy our
leisure, and celebrate.
Reviews:
Acquired
Tastes is infotainment with a flourish.
Overland,
1999, No 155
Among lively
anecdotes and touching personal memories on the role of food in family
and community life, Bannerman examines the impact of ethnic influences
and new cooking techniques and innovations.
Canberra
Times, Wednesday 5 May 1999
Information
on authors:
Colin Bannerman
is a food historian living in Canberra. He is author of A Friend in
the Kitchen: Old Australian Cookery Books (1996) examining Federation
cookery, and The Upside-Down Pudding: A Small Book of Christmas Feasts
(1999) 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.
Gay Bilson,
restaurateur and cook, is perhaps most widely associated with Berowra
Waters Inn. She intermittently writes about food and culture in newspapers
and journals.
Jackie French,
in addition to producing her fiction for adults and children, writes widely
in the area of food and cooking, gardening and animals—most recently in
Seasons of Content (1998), evoking her home region of Araluen,
NSW.
Marion Halligan
lives in Canberra and, as well as publishing her novels and short stories
such as Out of the Picture (1996) also published by the National
Library, has written on food and food culture in her books Eat My Words
(1990) and Cockles of the Heart (1996). She has won several
major literary prizes, including the Steele Rudd Award and the Age
Book of the Year Award.
Eric Rolls
has written poetry, autobiography and historical works and has published
the three-part gastronomical study A Celebration of Food and Wine (1997).
ISBN 0 642
10693 2
1998, pb, A4, 96 pp, colour and b&w illus.

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updated 11 September 2000
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