https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Fri, 14 Aug 2020 05:26:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/anzac-cookery/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/anzac-cookery/#respond Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:00:17 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=21256 Anzac Day, April 25, will be very different for many of us this year, as we won’t be following commemorative marches or gatherings to mark the event due to public health concerns. But we can still take pause to reflect on the ways we support front line workers – whether Anzac ‘digggers’ or today’s health […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/anzac-cookery/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-best-cooking-apparatus-in-the-whole-world/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-best-cooking-apparatus-in-the-whole-world/#respond Fri, 02 Feb 2018 01:56:31 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16039 The sweltering days we’ve had recently have put me in mind of a cook standing in front of a roaring open fire. So with that in mind, (drum-roll please) – it’s time to introduce “The most compact, clean, and best cooking apparatus in the whole world!” At Elizabeth Farm we haven’t been lighting the kitchen […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-best-cooking-apparatus-in-the-whole-world/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/5-years-of-curries-and-roasts-punch-puddings-pineapples-and-jellies/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/5-years-of-curries-and-roasts-punch-puddings-pineapples-and-jellies/#comments Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:30:33 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18847 The Cook and the Curator is turning five! I know! We don’t look a day over 4! Today we’re looking back on half a decade of investigating the stories of Sydney Living Museums’ properties through their rich food history, your favourite stories and ours, and thanking those that got us here. Are we sitting comfortably? […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/5-years-of-curries-and-roasts-punch-puddings-pineapples-and-jellies/feed/ 7 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/australian-tastes/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/australian-tastes/#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:00:05 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=17462 Yes folks, it’s a pavlova – or at least we are told it is, in 1930s cook book such as The new Goulburn cookery book and The Presbyterian cookery book of good and tried recipes. Iconically ‘Australian’ The notion of an Australian ‘national cuisine’ has been debated for decades, with iconic foods such as the […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/australian-tastes/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/let-them-see-how-like-england-we-can-be/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/let-them-see-how-like-england-we-can-be/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:00:45 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16555 ‘Let them see how like England we can be’ Following on from last week’s post about The Australian International Exhibition 1879-1880, the event was highly lacking in local flavour (a condition that many would argue is still the case today)…In the words of scholar, Graham Pont, ‘the colonial food exhibited at the Garden Palace was British, boring […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/let-them-see-how-like-england-we-can-be/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/gather-in-to-grace-our-feast/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/gather-in-to-grace-our-feast/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:00:59 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16516 In September 1879 Sydney presented itself on the world stage by hosting an ambitious International Exhibition, which ran until April 1880. The exhibition was held  with typical Victorian pomp, in an expansive, purpose-built ‘Garden Palace’ located on Sydney’s foreshores, in the Botanic Gardens. The exhibition at the Garden Palace is the focus of Jonathan Jones, winner of the […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/gather-in-to-grace-our-feast/feed/ 2 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/happy-birthday-elizabeth-macarthur/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/happy-birthday-elizabeth-macarthur/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2016 01:20:37 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16206 This Sunday marks the 250th birthday of one of Australian history’s most famous women – Elizabeth Macarthur! Elizabeth’s character has always struck me as, to use a 19th century phrase,  ’eminently sensible’. Throughout her life she displayed a philosophy that at times verges on the Stoic – Lennard Bickel called it a ‘habit of gentle […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/happy-birthday-elizabeth-macarthur/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/an-april-fool/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/an-april-fool/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2016 23:30:56 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=15122 This April Fools Day I’m departing from tradition and not telling a whopper, but I’m still talking about fools – the dessert that is. Soft, pale, creamy untroubled, the English fruit fool is the most frail and insubstantial of English Summer dishes. Elizabeth David, ‘A taste of the sun’ In essence, a fool is a […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/an-april-fool/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/edible-sunshine/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/edible-sunshine/#respond Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:00:43 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=14169 Spring is now well and truly underway and as the days grow longer and the buzz of native bees fills the air at Vaucluse House. Leila Wallace puts a special – edible – twist on our special springtime celebrations to mark Vaucluse House’s 100th anniversary as a public museum. It is a perfect time to enjoy the gardens […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/edible-sunshine/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/farewell-dr-rowland/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/farewell-dr-rowland/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:00:25 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=11826 Much fun and fascination was had in the historic hamlet of Carcoar, New South Wales on the weekend, when local volunteers from the Carcoar Hospital Museum captured a moment in time in the town’s history, presenting an evening of entertainment based on an actual event held in the town’s Victoria hotel in 1867.  We the […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/farewell-dr-rowland/feed/ 2