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Alternative title:
A Matter of Taste
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First known date:
2022...
no.
78
2022
of
Griffith Review
est. 2003-
Griffith Review
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'WHEN I TELL people that I wrote my PhD thesis on cookbooks, they usually react in one of two ways: excited or mystified. I’m not about to launch into one of those meaningless ‘there are two types of people in the world’ aphorisms – honestly, after four years of examining cookbooks through an academic lens, even I was experiencing diminished excitement returns. But one doctorate and a decade later, I’m also still pleasantly mystified by our obsession with food – our need to talk about it, remember it, photograph it and analyse it, to eat our feelings and compare our lives to buffets and boxes of chocolates.' (Carody Culver, Introduction, Tastemakers : The Many Flavours of Food Writing, introduction)
Notes
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Strong food On the hunt for abundance by James Suzman
Witches’ brew Reclaiming the ancient craft of ale making by Sam George-Allen
IN CONVERSATION Body of work Getting under the skin of consumerism by Anna Di Mezza and Carody Culver
IN CONVERSATION : A serving of home Spearheading the return to native produce by Nornie Bero and Carody Culver
Big Blueberry Crunch, clones and the rise of a global superfood by Nicole Hasham
The fight for the white stuff The ongoing machinations of the milk wars by Yves Rees
IN CONVERSTION Gut instinct The art of consumption by Elizabeth Willing and Carody Culver
Languages by David Ishaya Osu
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2022 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Recipe for Success : The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Cookbooks,
single work
criticism
'A NOVEL I once read described a protagonist as the sort of woman who reads a cookbook in bed. I glance at my bedside and ponder the hardcovers sitting there. Hetty McKinnon. Anna Jones. Alison Roman. Are these not the great writers of our time? Steinbeck lies under a glass of water – the essential, reliable storyteller and coaster. But for practical, everyday beauty, for hope, for love, for mind-changing advice, it was always cookbooks.' (Publication summary)
- Lunch at the Dream House, single work short story (p. 17-33)
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Fallen Apples : Familial Ties, Fairytales and the Forbidden Fruit,
single work
essay
'‘THE APPLE DOESN’T fall far from the tree,’ said the woman from the abortion clinic on the other end of the phone. She repeated this proverb or idiom – with Turkish, Germanic and Russian origins – several times during our conversation.' (Introduction)
- The Long Supper, single work short story (p. 68-74)
- The Party for Crabs, single work short story (p. 92-99)
- Having and Not Having the Cake : Baking in a Time of Lockdown, single work autobiography (p. 100-106)
- The Supperi"Now it is the appointed Time, the Hour at which Man and Bird and Beast", single work poetry (p. 107)
- Quinoa Nation, single work short story (p. 108-114)
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Easter Cakes : An Iconography of Resilience,
single work
autobiography
'I START WRITING a poem when Ellen is still alive, and it is the first thing I write that I am proud of. It starts with a title (it is part of a sequence) or maybe a number, and then: I was afraid of Easter / stuffed with walnuts and dates / moulded then sugared / (why mould if you’re sugaring?). I forget the next part of the verse, which concludes: moulding and sugaring and Eastering Arabic cakes. Even approaching ninety and losing her sight, Ellen, my grandmother, would make hundreds of the cakes I am writing about, called ma’amoul (and I have subsequently learnt we really did Easter those cakes, cakes also made for Muslim festivals such as Eid and Jewish festivals such as Purim).' (Introduction)
- Flowers and Fruiti"Poppies like poppies. Pears, pears.", single work poetry (p. 131)
- Old Stars, single work short story (p. 132-145)
- Finding the Fundamentals of Culture : On Forging Meaning through Food, single work autobiography (p. 165-169)
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Confected Outrage What’s in a Snack Name?,
single work
essay
'IN 2016, I ATT ENDED a children’s literature conference in Wrocław, Poland, to deliver a paper to an international audience. On the first day, I heard the voices of two other Australians – our accent, to my ears, coming through flat and obvious from the auditorium seats. My paper was about lollies in children’s fiction, so of course I had brought with me bags of lollies to share with my audience and, hopefully, make my talk more appealing. Having spent four years writing about lollies, I figured my confectionery choices needed to be popular and tasty and say something about my central thesis. I’d taken ages in a Brisbane supermarket aisle, finally settling on bags of Allen’s Pineapples, Allen’s Strawberries & Creams and Allen’s Chicos: small, brown, chocolate-flavoured jubes that are shaped like babies. I was very nervous about my presentation, but I had no idea that it was this mundane act of choosing confectionery I should have worried about the most.' (Introduction)
- Dried Milk : On the Trials and Rewards of Weaning Children, single work autobiography (p. 182-187)
- Heat and Hope and Attention : Body Control in a Time of Chaos, single work autobiography (p. 188-195)
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IN CONVERSATION : Changing Palates : Multiculturalism on the Menu Adam Liaw and Andrew Jakubowicz,
Adam Liaw
(interviewer),
Andrew Jakubowicz
(interviewer),
single work
interview
'In the fiftieth anniversary year of the Whitlam government’s election victory, the legacies of its groundbreaking multicultural policies are still being felt – in courtrooms and boardrooms, in classrooms and living rooms. This final instalment in our series of intergenerational exchanges – a collaboration between Griffith Review and the Whitlam Institute – brings together cook, writer and television presenter Adam Liaw and Emeritus Professor of Sociology Andrew Jakubowicz to explore the many ways Whitlam helped us reimagine Australia.' (Introduction)
- A Recipe for Rote Grützei"I remember standing in your kitchen. The staccato of your movement,", single work poetry (p. 205-206)
- Eat Me in the City : Feasting for the End Times Kris Kneen, single work autobiography (p. 207-211)
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