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Jin Sun Kim came to Australia from her native Korea to become a pastry chef. Along the way she fell in love with chocolate and is now a chocolatier at her business Kakawa in Darlinghurst. Learn about where chocolate comes from, how it is made and what makes it good – and bad! […]
The first recorded curry meal served in the colony was at a dinner party given bt Governor Macquarie. It was the food of the upper classes and, as we have learned with other foodstuffs, it doesn’t come on to the tables of average households until it is cheap and plentiful. Commercial curry powders came to […]
Read More… from Eat Your History Part 6: Curry with Jacqui Newling
King Henry VI inherited the English throne aged 9 months, on the death of his father, the legendary Henry V and he inherited the French throne from his grandfather, Charles VI some months later. He was crowned as a boy in November 1429. Henry was simply not meant to be a ruler and his reign, […]
Jelly arrived in the colony long after it was fashionable on tables in England. It was very much a rich man’s dish because of the time it took to make. Learn about these techniques and how jelly later becomes a staple in all Australian homes. […]
Read More… from Eat Your History Part 5: Jelly with Jacqui Newling
Halloween was not part of growing up for many of us. We just assumed it was an American custom we acquired via popular television. Actually it started as a Celtic festival more than 2,000 years ago. Dr Carole Cusack Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney, tells us more about the Celts, how […]
Jacqui Newling returns with Part 4 on oysters. In the early days, oysters were used as mortar. However, we quickly started harvesting them for eating and by the 1860s had seriously depleted this resource. Thus began oyster farming. […]
My childhood and teenage days on Bondi Beach were regularly punctuated by shark alarms. As we all scrambled out of the water as fast as we could, there was no doubt as to who was the victim and who was the predator. A new exhibition at the Australian Museum, Sharks, aims to turn this view […]
In this episode Jacqui looks at tea. Convicts and poor settlers had drunk tea back in England, but it was not considered a staple and was not included in convicts’ rations. As more idea from China came into the colony, the poor drank cheap green tea while the wealthy drank black tea with milk and […]
Read More… from Eat Your History Part 3: Tea with Jacqui Newling
What is a personal trainer? What qualifications do they have, if any? What can they do for us? And who benefits? Exercise physiologist and Personal Trainer, Mia Kacen takes us through this surprisingly complex field. […]
When the convicts and first settlers arrived, sugar was not a staple. It was still a very expensive commodity, only on the tables of the wealthy. Learn how sugar became more plentiful, cheaper and part of everyone’s life. […]
Read More… from Eat Your History Part 2: Sugar with Jacqui Newling
One in ten women leave work as a result of menopause. They are aged 45-55, an age when we can least afford for them to abandon work. However, for these women, the symptoms are unbearable. And yet, it is so easy to make life bearable for menopausal women in the workplace. Dr Ginni Mansberg and […]
Read More… from Menopause in the Workplace with Dr Ginni Mansberg
We return to a series from 2016 with Jacqui Newling called Eat Your History. Jacqui is colonial gastronomer at Sydney Living Museums and in this series, she takes us through the history of basic food staples in the early colony. First episode is our most basic: bread. […]
Read More… from Eat Your History Part 1: Bread with Jacqui Newling