The seminal Oz cookbook Cookery the Australian Way turns 50 years old in 2016. Shirley Jackson, now 80, is the last surviving writer of the original book. Simon O'Dwyer ...

Yet it’s not from the Country Women’s Association or even the Women’s Weekly. Published in 1864, The English & Australian Cookery Book is by little- known Tasmanian author Edward Abbott ...

Australian cooking has come a long way – competitions are no longer for the busy home cook. Shutterstock Her menu demonstrates the dizzying progression of Australian food over the past 40 years.

It was 1937. If you're surprised, I don't blame you. Most stories of Italians in Australia feature those who came after the Second World War, but by 1933, Italians were already the biggest non ...

It begins in 1940 with her name and address. She was 14 at that time. Her cookery book, as she called it, comprised an Embassy exercise book with three recipes per page over 80 pages.

To complete Prudence's bacon-laced appetiser you need duck liver or, failing that, chicken. Duck liver is a real treat, much larger and more like foie gras, I know where there is a small supply ...

Cook the book Slippery bob The English & Australian Cookery Book by Edward Abbott (Tas Food Books, $75, hbk). Gourmet Farmer Afloat starts Thursday 19 February, 7.30pm on SBS ONE.