From the fridge door

Chocolate cake drawn by a visitor to the Eat your history: a shared table exhibition

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

I dined this day with relish

Oil painting of Tarmons in a landscape with blue and pink sky.

Tarmons, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Residence of Sir Maurice O'Connell (detail), George Edwards Peacock, 1845. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW: ML 148

June 29, 1846
I dined this day with my respected chief, Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice O’Connell, at his beautiful villa, Tarmons… there were brisk coal fires burning in both dining and drawing-room, and the general appliances of the household, the dress of the guests and the servants, were as entirely English as they could have been in London… Continue reading