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The Colonial Kitchen - Australia 1788-1901 (Hardcover)
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The Colonial Kitchen - Australia 1788-1901 (Hardcover)
Series: Historic Kitchens
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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.
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