https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Tue, 03 Nov 2015 23:49:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eat-your-history-the-book/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eat-your-history-the-book/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2015 22:00:05 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=14084 Handwritten recipes passed through the generations, tales of goats running wild in colonial gardens and early settlers’ experimentation with native foods… Eat your history dishes up stories and recipes for Australian kitchens and dining tables from 1788 to the 1950s. Jacqui Newling, resident gastronomer at Sydney Living Museums, invites you to share forgotten tastes and […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eat-your-history-the-book/feed/ 4 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/one-might-have-danced-a-reel-between-the-dishes/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/one-might-have-danced-a-reel-between-the-dishes/#respond Wed, 03 Sep 2014 23:00:11 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=6424 Can you just imagine light-footed dancers skipping across the governor’s table, mindful not to upset a glass or tread in anyone’s dinner… “We yesterday dined at Government House, at a farewell dinner given to Colonel and Mrs Paterson. – It was but stupid – Mrs Macquarie has not the art of making people feel happy […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/one-might-have-danced-a-reel-between-the-dishes/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-de-maliez-mystery-in-search-of-the-governors-french-cook/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-de-maliez-mystery-in-search-of-the-governors-french-cook/#respond Wed, 27 Aug 2014 23:00:09 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=8830 Historical research is a curious thing. You find a fleeting reference or snippet of information that prickles your interest about a place, a person, an object or an incidence, then find yourself chasing leads that might shed more light on the subject. In this case, it is the mystery of Governor Arthur Phillip’s ‘French cook’. First […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-de-maliez-mystery-in-search-of-the-governors-french-cook/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/celebrating-knowledge-and-sharing-of-tastes/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/celebrating-knowledge-and-sharing-of-tastes/#respond Wed, 09 Jul 2014 23:00:34 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=9324 From the edge of the trees the Gadigal people watched as the strangers of the First Fleet struggled ashore in 1788. This installation by Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley symbolises that first encounter. Wander through trees embedded with materials and language evoking the layers of memory, people and place.  Museum of Sydney, built on the site of first government house, is in part, a monument to the commemorate first contact between British colonisers […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/celebrating-knowledge-and-sharing-of-tastes/feed/ 0