The Food and Drink of Sydney

The Food and Drink of Sydney
Author: Heather Hunwick
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2018-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442252049

Sydney, famed for its setting and natural beauty, has fascinated from the day it was conceived as an end-of-the-world repository for British felons, to its current status as one of the world’s most appealing cities. This book recounts, and celebrates, the central role food has played in shaping the city’s development from the time of first human settlement to the sophisticated, open, and cosmopolitan metropolis it is today. The reader will learn of the Sydney region’s unique natural resources and come to appreciate how these shaped food habits through its pre-history and early European settlement; how its subsequent waves of immigrants enriched its food scene; its love-hate relationship with alcohol; its markets, restaurants, and other eateries; and, how Sydneysiders, old and new, eat at home. The story concludes with a fascinating review of the city’s many significant cookbooks and their origins, and some iconic recipes relied upon through what is, for a global city, a remarkably brief history.

Urban Food Culture

Urban Food Culture
Author: Cecilia Leong-Salobir
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137516917

This book explores the food history of twentieth-century Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore within an Asian Pacific network of flux and flows. It engages with a range of historical perspectives on each city’s food and culinary histories, including colonial culinary legacies, restaurants, cafes, street food, market gardens, supermarkets and cookbooks, examining the exchange of goods and services and how the migration of people to the urban centres informed the social histories of the cities’ foodways in the contexts of culinary nationalism, ethnic identities and globalization. Considering the recent food history of the three cities and its complex narrative of empire, trade networks and migration patterns, this book discusses key aspects of each city’s cuisine in the twentieth century, examining the interwoven threads of colonialism and globalization. ​

The Wit of Whitlam

The Wit of Whitlam
Author: James Carleton
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2014-12-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0522868096

His wife Margaret was his 'best appointment', he called Malcolm Fraser 'Kerr's cur' after the Dismissal and when Sir Winton Turnbull called out in parliament 'I am a country member', Gough interjected 'I remember'. When it was suggested he was funny, Gough responded: 'Funny! Funny? Witty, yes. Epigrammatic perhaps, but not funny. You make me sound like a clown.' James Carleton, Radio National presenter and founder of the university club 'The Dewy-Eyed Whitlamites', presents a keepsake of Goughisms that vindicates the Great Man's self-assessment, 'I never said I was immortal, merely eternal.'

Australia 2005

Australia 2005
Author: Fodor's
Publisher:
Total Pages: 772
Release: 2004-10-05
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781400014286

Completely up to date with Down Under's best hotel and restaurant choices for all budgets, this guide features reviews that convey why each place is special and provides important information such as facilities, addresses, and Web sites. Illustrations & photos.

Frommer's Australia 2008

Frommer's Australia 2008
Author: Ron Crittall
Publisher: *Frommers
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2007-11-05
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780470165362

Frommer's. The best trips start here. Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. From the Outback to the Great Barrier Reef and everywhere in between, let our expert authors guide you around Down Under. Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not. Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget. Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

In Defense of Food

In Defense of Food
Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2009-04-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0143114964

#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.

Food and Foodways in Asia

Food and Foodways in Asia
Author: Sidney Cheung
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007-06-11
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1134164610

Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism. However, a truly comprehensive view of food cannot neglect the politics of food production, in particular, how, when, from where and even why different kinds of food are produced, prepared and supplied. Food and Foodways in Asia is an anthropological inquiry providing rich ethnographic description and analysis of food production as it interacts with social and political complexities in Asia’s diverse cultures. Prominent anthropologists examine how food is related to ethnic identity and boundary formation, consumerism and global food distribution, and the invention of local cuisine in the context of increasing cultural contact. With chapters ranging from the invention of 'local food' for tourism development, to Asia's contribution to ‘world cuisine,’ Food and Foodways in Asia will be a fascinating read for anyone interested in the anthropology of food and/or Asian studies.

The Philosophy of Food

The Philosophy of Food
Author: David M. Kaplan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2012-01-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0520269330

This book explores food from a philosophical perspective, bringing together leading philosophers to consider the most basic questions about food. Each essay analyses many contemporary debates in food studies. Slow Food, sustainability, food safety, and politics, and addresses such issues as happy meat, aquaculture, veganism, and table manners.