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Jin Sun Kim came to Australia from her native Korea to become a pastry chef. Along the way she fell in love with chocolate and is now a chocolatier at her business Kakawa in Darlinghurst. Learn about where chocolate comes from, how it is made and what makes it good – and bad! [...]Read More... from Chocolate with chocolatier Jin Sun Kim

The first recorded curry meal served in the colony was at a dinner party given bt Governor Macquarie. It was the food of the upper classes and, as we have learned with other foodstuffs, it doesn’t come on to the tables of average households until it is cheap and plentiful. Commercial curry powders came to [...]Read More... from Eat Your History Part 6: Curry with Jacqui Newling

King Henry VI inherited the English throne aged 9 months, on the death of his father, the legendary Henry V and he inherited the French throne from his grandfather, Charles VI some months later. He was crowned as a boy in November 1429. Henry was simply not meant to be a ruler and his reign, [...]Read More... from King Henry VI with Dr Carole Cusack

Jelly arrived in the colony long after it was fashionable on tables in England. It was very much a rich man’s dish because of the time it took to make. Learn about these techniques and how jelly later becomes a staple in all Australian homes. [...]Read More... from Eat Your History Part 5: Jelly with Jacqui Newling

Halloween was not part of growing up for many of us. We just assumed it was an American custom we acquired via popular television. Actually it started as a Celtic festival more than 2,000 years ago. Dr Carole Cusack Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney, tells us more about the Celts, how [...]Read More... from Halloween with Professor Carole Cusack

Jacqui Newling returns with Part 4  on oysters. In the early days, oysters were used as mortar. However, we quickly started harvesting them for eating and by the 1860s had seriously depleted this resource. Thus began oyster farming. [...]Read More... from Eat Your History Part 4: Oysters