The food theme for this year’s TEDxSydney 2016 at Sydney Opera House was Food brings us together. Continue reading
TEDxSydney dishes up our history
Mrs Sarantides's sousa-ka-kia meatballs Photo © TedXSydney 2016 via pinterest (detail)
Author: The Cook and the Curator
Merry Christmas!
The Cook and the Curator at Christmas Fare, Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photo Alysha Buss © Sydney Living Museums
Wishing you a very happy Christmas day from The Cook and the Curator!
Our Celestial City of Sydney
Portrait of Quong Tart (detail), c1880s. State Library of NSW ML1346
This Saturday we’re welcoming in a brand new exhibition at the Museum of Sydney, Celestial City: Sydney’s Chinese story with a host of supporting programs enveloped in the theme. Continue reading
From the fridge door
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
Merry Christmas
Tiny hand-drawn Christmas card from Robert Barnet and his brother Don to their grandfather Roderick Macgregor, c1906. June Wallace Papers, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums
Happy Christmas from the Eat your history team and Sydney Living Museums! Continue reading
You’re invited – to share our table
You’re invited to our beautiful new exhibition Eat your history: a shared table which has opened at the Museum of Sydney! Continue reading
Elizabeth McKinnon, project intern
Elizabeth McKinnon. Photo © Matthew Balzer
While currently studying a Master of Museum Studies at the University of Sydney, an opportunity for an internship on the Eat Your History project came up. Continue reading
Blowing our trumpet :-)
The Cook and the Curator blog, winner of the MAPDA Judges Special Award (Multimedia)!
We’re all rather chuffed here at the Cook and the Curator – winning two prestigious industry awards! Continue reading
I dined this day with relish
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
Happy (Chinese) New Year!
Album of Chinese paintings showing stages of tea production (detail), watercolour on pith paper, 19th century. Caroline Simpson Collection, Historic Houses Trust: L2007/174-2
Kung Hei Fat Choy from all at the Cook and the Curator! Today marks the start of the 2013 Chinese lunar year – ‘the Year of the Snake’. Continue reading