Burleigh-ware trade plate advertising 'Willow-pattern' crockery, c1935. Private collection. Photo Scott Hill © Sydney Living Museums
Now that we’ve all recovered from a month of festive feasting, February has something to offer every foodie. Continue reading
Front cover (deatail), State Banquet in commemoration of the first hundred years of Australian settlement, 1888. State Library of New South Wales: Ephemera/Menus/1800- / Box 1
On this day in 1888, Sydney was caught up in celebration of the first hundred years of British settlement in Australia. Continue reading
[The house at Vineyard, Parramatta] (detail), Conrad Martens, 1856. Caroline Simpson Collection, Sydney Living Museums
This week in 1836 Maria and Hannibal Macarthur entertained a notable guest at their home, Vineyard – Charles Darwin! Continue reading
Metters 'Early Kooka'. Photo Jacqui Newling © Sydney Living Museums
‘The Cook’, gastronomer Jacqui Newling, is very excited to have acquired a blue Early Kooka – all because of one man’s love of cheese on toast. Continue reading
Chocolate cake drawn by a visitor to the Eat your history: a shared table exhibition
If you’ve been down to see Eat your history: a shared table at the Museum of Sydney you’ll have seen all the comment cards stuck up with magnets on our virtual fridge door. Here are some of our favorites so far from our younger visitors – drawings, recipes and much-loved foods! It’s great to see such enthusiasm and creativity from the next generation of foodies! Continue reading
A day’s picnic on Clark Island, Sydney Harbour (detail), Montagu Scott, 1870. State Library of New South Wales: ML3
While many Sydney-siders gather around the harbour for New Year’s eve celebrations, New Year’s Day was often spent in public celebration in colonial times in the form of a foreshore picnic. Montagu Scott’s extraordinarily detailed depiction of such an event gives a brilliant ‘snapshot’ of revelers and their antics in 1870. Continue reading