'Grow your own vegetables, raise your own fowls' Artist unknown, Commonweatlh Food Control, 1944 ECL #201 AWM: ARTV02474 © Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Note the beetroot and potatoes centre left.

While World War II battled on across the globe, Australians at home responded to a call for arms in a more localised sense to do ‘their bit’ for the war effort. Continue reading →

A frozen dinner, 1875 style

12 April 2018 The Cook 2 Comments

Frozen food is not something we might normally associate with picnics, but in 1875 entrepreneur businessman Thomas Sutcliffe Mort invited three hundred dignitaries to a picnic in Bowenfels, New South Wales, in the Lithgow Valley to demonstrate the colony’s latest technology.
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A frozen dinner, 1875 style