Journal of Australian Studies articles from March 2006

Journal of Australian Studies archives from March 2006

Introduction.(Culinary Distinction)
March 1, 2006

Indigenous Australian cookery, past and present.(Culinary Distinction)
March 1, 2006... It can be claimed that Indigenous Australian cookery is the world's oldest living culinary tradition. How ancient a tradition it can be considered depends on whether one has a scientific or a spiritual worldview. Most anthropologists' estimates...

Indigenous food and cookery books: redefining Aboriginal cuisine.(Culinary Distinction)
March 1, 2006... Culinary eclipse When Arthur Phillip hoisted the British flag near some of the finest oyster beds in the world, he already knew that the colony he was founding would not be fed by picking shells off the rocks and gathering wild berries but...

The high and the low: Australian cuisine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.(Culinary Distinction)(Essay)
March 1, 2006... In his classic and ground-breaking work Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology (1982), anthropologist Jack Goody presented examples of differentiated cuisines--in his terms, higher and lower--found in societies that are...

Anzac biscuits--a culinary memorial.(Culinary Distinction)(Essay)
March 1, 2006... Anzac biscuits were a staple of my grandmother's culinary repertoire. Almost every Saturday, along with the bread that she baked, my Scottish grandmother would make a batch of Anzac biscuits. As a child they were not one of my favourites; they...

Australian history in the baking: the rebirth of a Scotch oven.(Culinary Distinction)
March 1, 2006... Ovens and progress Writing in 1891, Italian cookery authority Pellegrino Artusi complained: If I knew who invented the oven, I'd erect a monument to him at my own expense. He certainly deserves it far more than many others ...

'Winnies and Pats ... brighten our pubs': transforming the gendered spatial economy in the Australian pub, 1920-1970.(Culinary Distinction)
March 1, 2006... When, in 1966, journalist Craig McGregor published an influential and best-selling study of Australian society and culture, he connected pubs and drinking in them to Australian values of egalitarianism and mateship. Drinking was 'the great...

With Sam Benwell and the House of Lords journeying to wine in Victoria.(Culinary Distinction)(Critical essay)
March 1, 2006... Wine is a good beverage at any time. But wine is always best when it is drunk near its own soil. Wines are places. Which is why it is a good and profitable thing to set off in search of the wine belts with nose in air and palate clean instead...

Living in Singapore, travelling to Hong Kong, remembering Australia: intersections of food and place.(Culinary Distinction)(Essay)
March 1, 2006... Amarjit Singh Tanda felt a sense of belonging when his family became citizens in 1997. But he only felt Australian when he bought his first barbecue a year later... 'We use it to cook chicken in an Indian style but sometimes we just put chops...

Food as an ideological tool: national socialism and the German-Australian community.(Culinary Distinction)
March 1, 2006... Historically, food has been a significant cultural expression and means of ethnic identification for many Germans. Under the Nazis, food continued to function in this role; however, through its ethnic identification, food also served the...

Appropriating bush tucker: food in Inoue Hisashi's Yellow Rats.(Culinary Distinction)
March 1, 2006... In March 1976 Inoue Hisashi (1) (b.1934), the Japanese novelist-playwright, arrived in Australia for a term as a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (ANU). He was already widely recognised in Japan for his award-winning work...

'A natural part of life': the Australian sugar industry's campaign to reverse declining Australian sugar consumption, 1980-1995.(Culinary Distinction)
March 1, 2006... The Australian author Paul McGuire in his travels throughout Australia in the late 1930s visited North Queensland. Surrounded by fields of sugar cane, he reported that 'it was almost a matter of decency to fill one's teacup with lumps of sugar:...

Environmental values and food choices: views from Australian organic food consumers.(Culinary Distinction)
March 1, 2006... Mum always told us to eat our greens. While she was referring to the spinach and broccoli on our plates, her words also resonate with the ecological and political values that have come to shape many Australian consumers' decisions about food...

My grandmother is a walnut cake: legacies from the kitchen.(Culinary Distinction)(Essay)
March 1, 2006... My grandmother is a walnut cake because, for me, that is all she can be; I have never seen a photograph, I have never heard her voice, and I don't have anything that belonged to her. And yet, whenever I bake our family's Russian walnut cake she...

Reprimand.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

Language Lost.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

Wings.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

The Addict.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

Black Bamboo.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

Stepping through Glass.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

Psalm 153: Sneaking into Heaven.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

Bruised commas.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

Flimsy things.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

Passage.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

Imperial Chemicals.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

Harnessing the Horse.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

His Fear of Boys.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

No. 9 Ridge Street.(Poem)
March 1, 2006

David Carter ed, The Ideas Market.(Book review)
March 1, 2006

Joan Eveline, Ivory Basement Leadership: Power and Invisibility in the Changing University.(Book review)
March 1, 2006

Graham Seal, Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology.(Book review)
March 1, 2006

Anna Shnukal Guy Ramsay and Yuriko Nagata eds, Navigating Boundaries: the Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait.(Book review)
March 1, 2006

Brij V Lal, Bittersweet: An Indo-Fijian Experience.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Brij V Lal, Bittersweet: An Indo-Fijian Experience, Canberra, Pandanus Books, 2004, pb $45.00, ISBN 1740761170. The cover of Bittersweet is a haunting one. A young Indo-Fijian girl of eight or nine, dressed as if for a special occasion,...

Deborah Bird Rose, Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Deborah Bird Rose, Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation, Sydney, UNSW Press, 2004, pp 236, pb $39.95, ISBN 0868407984. Deborah Bird Rose's latest work is the product of extended reflections on the ways by which...

Judith Brett, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard.(Book review)
March 1, 2006

Ian Marsh and David Yencken, Into the Future: The neglect of the long term in Australian politics.(Book review)
March 1, 2006

Boris Frankel, Zombies, Lilliputians and Sadists: The Power of the Living Dead and the Future of Australia.(Book review)
March 1, 2006

David Carter Kate Darian-Smith and Gus Worby eds, Thinking Australian Studies: teaching across cultures.(Book review)
March 1, 2006