Food History

Food, Cooking & Wine Channel Posts

• Mrs. Fisher's cookbook
  I have a thing about the South. By the South, I mean Melbourne, of course (since I;m Australian) but I also mean states like Arkansas and Alabama. One of my recent purchases is a book by Mrs. [...]
• The Conflux Banquet is open for bookings!!
  The quickness of the Conflux webmaster's hand oft deceives the eye. The form to book the Conflux banquet is already up! I don't need to email it to anyone. I can go back to my aim-of-the-week, [...]
• Reindeer, winter fruit and scurvy
  I was looking for chicken recipes for the meeting with the Conflux chef and I kept coming across reindeer recipes. If anyone wants to cook reindeer in the manner of the second decade (or [...]
• Conflux Prohibition banquet: bookings now open
  If you want to book for the banquet even before the booking form goes on the web, give me an email address and I'll send you the form. I'll post a link to it here soon, too, plus a bit more [...]
• Fat Burning Recipes to Boost Your Body's Metabolism
  • Green Tea and Blueberry Smoothie Serves: 2 3/4 cup water 2 green tea bags 2 cup fresh or frozen blueberries 3 ice cubes 12 oz fat-free vanilla yogurt 2 tbsp whole dry-roasted, unsalted [...]
• Too many bananas
  I like the idea of bananas because they are portable, filling and healthy, thus they make a great snack on the go. They are also cheap, and while I prefer to buy local produce in the season, we’re [...]
• Berry Picking
  We went berry picking last week at Linvilla Orchard, a local pick your own that has a wide variety of fruit available throughout the year. Last week was the end of strawberry season, the height of [...]
• More updates (life is so exciting some days!)
  Today is all about updates. First of all, the Conflux Banquet. My update on this is that I'm still waiting for some last cocktail test results and then the committee will have an alcoholic [...]
• I'm back!!!!!
  Sorry about the lack of food history recently. We had server problems. I've been blogging madly in the downtime, largely because I had books I wanted to blog so that I could put them away [...]
• Stay Sharp and Focused with Fish
  Adding fish to your diet is a great way to include heart healthy ingredients and get your full serving of omega-3 fatty acids, but did you know that fish is also good for you in other ways as well? [...]