https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Wed, 20 Mar 2019 06:10:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/autumnal-fare-at-rouse-hill-house-farm-this-sunday/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/autumnal-fare-at-rouse-hill-house-farm-this-sunday/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2019 06:10:38 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20233 Well there’s no rest for us! Barely is the the 2019 Eel Festival over at Elizabeth Farm than we’re heading up the Windsor Road to Rouse Hill House for the next event on the SLM food festival – Autumn Harvest! Talk, taste and take home This Sunday, from 9am till 3pm it’s Autumn Harvest at […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/autumnal-fare-at-rouse-hill-house-farm-this-sunday/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eel-festival-at-elizabeth-farm/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eel-festival-at-elizabeth-farm/#respond Wed, 07 Mar 2018 23:30:07 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19222 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. A slippery river bounty The hunting of eels by indigenous peoples was noted early by Europeans. A note in the Sydney Gazette […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eel-festival-at-elizabeth-farm/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/joanna-nicholas-curator/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/joanna-nicholas-curator/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2017 22:58:19 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18757 Joanna Nicholas is Curator in the House Museums Portfolio, responsible for Vaucluse, Elizabeth Bay and Rose Seidler Houses. She is passionate about the immersive experiences house museums can provide for visitors – the power of their collections, gardens and grounds.Joanna has been a Curator at Sydney Living Museums for over fifteen years, with roles at  the […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/joanna-nicholas-curator/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eels-all-wrapped-up/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eels-all-wrapped-up/#comments Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:30:30 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=17889 This year’s Eel Festival at Elizabeth Farm was a great success! The day started with a Welcome to Country by Indigenous Elder Greg Simms, and a smoking ceremony by Uncle Wes Marne. Inside the house, Jacqui gave lessons in making ‘collared eel’ in the kitchen, while in the house’s formal rooms I was talking about […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eels-all-wrapped-up/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/kim-connors-intern-hyde-park-barracks/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/kim-connors-intern-hyde-park-barracks/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:59:23 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16409 Kim Connor is an Honours student in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Her thesis, ‘Feeding the confined’ is an analysis of the animal bone from Hyde Park barracks in order to investigate the diet of the women of the Immigration Depot and the Destitute Asylum (1848-1886). By studying the bones, I’m […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/kim-connors-intern-hyde-park-barracks/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eat-your-history-receives-a-heritage-award/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eat-your-history-receives-a-heritage-award/#comments Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:34 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=15632 We are very delighted that Eat your history, stories and recipes from Australian kitchens has received a National Trust New South Wales 2016 Heritage Award in the publication category. Eat your history received Highly Commended in a rich field of inspiring publications. As author it is lovely to receive accolades, however the book’s quality and appeal comes […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eat-your-history-receives-a-heritage-award/feed/ 2 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/merry-christmas-from-the-cook-and-the-curator/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/merry-christmas-from-the-cook-and-the-curator/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 23:30:07 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=14581 Its that time of year again! Merry Christmas from all of us here at the Cook and the Curator, and best wishes for 2016! Special thanks from us to all who make the blog possible: to our guest writers who kept us sane, to Ondine and Jay who ironed out the bugs, to everyone who […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/merry-christmas-from-the-cook-and-the-curator/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/latoya-schadel/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/latoya-schadel/#respond Fri, 20 Nov 2015 02:43:15 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=14400 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/latoya-schadel/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/leila-wallace/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/leila-wallace/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2015 02:42:27 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=14405 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/leila-wallace/feed/ 1