Wrapping an eel in Gymea leaf and paper bark, ready for the barbeque at the Eel Festival at Elizabeth Farm. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums
Our free, family-friendly Eel Festival celebrates Parramatta’s namesake, the eel, and its significance to the local Darug people the Burramattagal, who for generations have gathered during eel season to feast, trade and share stories.
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A view of the garden path leading to front verandah of Meroogal. Photo © John Storey
Up before dawn, invitations to tea, aunt Tottie’s famous sponge cake, making seasonal jams and preserves: it can only mean one thing – this month we’re visiting Meroogal! Continue reading
A peek into the corner shop at Susannah Place. Photo © Christopher Shain
Susannah Place conjures the essence of autumn, with its paint peeling, its colours fading, but leaving us with a glimmer of when the houses were busy with the daily lives of its tenants. This diminutive row of four inner-city terrace houses in Sydney’s Rocks has seen generations of change, not least revealed in its kitchens and dining spaces.
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The Museum of Sydney and Edge of the Trees by Janet Laurence. Photo © Brett Boardman
February’s focus is Museum of Sydney – MoS to locals – and the site it occupies, which was where the colony’s first Government House was located. Continue reading
Elizabeth Farm. Photo © Christopher Shain
Happy New Year from all at The Cook and The Curator! With any luck, everyone’s had a good lie down to recover from a week of festivity and puddings and, in the finest January tradition, is now setting about breaking resolutions that were really a good idea at the time but in hindsight seem, well… Continue reading
The Cook and the Curator at Vaucluse House. Photo © James Horan
The Cook and the Curator blog invites you to discover our food heritage at Sydney Living Museums. You will enter our homes, raid our pantries, fire up our stoves, cook in our kitchens, try out our recipes and dine at our tables.
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