The first Europeans to settle on the Aboriginal land that would become known as Australia arrived in 1788. From the first these colonists were accused of ineptitude when it came to feeding themselves: as legend has it they nearly starved to death because they were hopeless agriculturists and ignored indigenous foods. As the colony developed Australians developed a reputation as dreadful cooks and uncouth eaters who gorged themselves on meat and disdained vegetables. By the end of the nineteenth century the Australian diet was routinely described as one of poorly cooked mutton, damper, cabbage, potatoes and leaden puddings all washed down with an ocean of saccharine sweet tea: These stereotypes have been allowed to stand as representing Australia's colonial food history. Contemporary Australians have embraced 'exotic' European and Asian cuisines and blended elements of these to begin to shape a distinctive Australian style of cookery but they have tended to ignore, or ridicule, what they believe to be the terrible English cuisine of their colonial ancestors largely because of these prevailing negative stereotypes. The Colonial Kitchen: Australia 1788- 1901 challenges the notion that colonial Australians were all diabolical cooks and ill-mannered eaters through a rich and nuanced exploration of their kitchens, gardens and dining rooms; who was writing about food and what their purpose might have been; and the social and cultural factors at play on shaping what, how and when they at ate and how this was represented.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-13
9781442249813
eBay Product ID (ePID)
227586714
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Colonial Kitchen: Australia 1788-1901
Author
Charmaine O'brien
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Food & Drink
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
238mm
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
481g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Charmaine O'brien
Series Title
Historic Kitchens
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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