News
2012
Gastronomy graduate Linda Morgan will be participating on a panel focused on corporate cookbooks at the Cookbook Conference, February 9-11, 2012 in New York City. Many of the panels (including hers) will be webcast. Anyone can tune in, watch the panels, and tweet questions. In addition, all 28 panels will be filmed and will be up on the same website a week or two after the conference. The broadcast schedule is available at the conference website: www.cookbookconf.com
Anita Stewart (MA in Gastronomy, 2003) received yet another honour at the end of 2011, being appointed Member of the Order of Canada ‘For her contributions as a journalist, author and culinary activist and for her promotion of the food industry in Canada’. This is the highest civilian honour that can be bestowed in Canada. Read more about Anita’s achievements here.
2011
Latest PhD Graduates
Dr Janet Boileau (left) and Dr Leonie Ryder (right) received their PhD awards at a graduation ceremony at the University of Adelaide on 13 April 2011. Under the supervision of Dr Barbara Santich and Dr Rachel Ankeny, both researched aspects of culinary history, Janet's thesis entitled A Cultural History of the Portuguese Eurasians: The Origins of Luso-Asian Cuisine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, and Leonie's Incorrigible Colonist: Ginger in Australia, 1788-1950.
Gastronomy Graduate Honoured
One of the first gastronomy graduates, Øyvind Andersen (Norway) has been honoured by the Norwegian Chefs Association which awarded him (as he knelt beneath Vatel's knife!) its prestigious 'Cordon Bleu' award in June 2011.
Career Updates
Linda Morgan (MA in Gastronomy, 2007) has had an article based on her dissertation, which was entitled Diplomatic Gastronomy: Style and Power at the Table, accepted for publication in Food and Foodways:
Diplomatic Gastronomy: Style and Power at the Table
(ID: 680366 DOI:10.1080/07409710.2012.680366)
Journal: Food and Foodways (Download Current Citation: RIS BibTex)
Estimated Publication date - 31 May 2012 (Online) , 20 Jun 2012 (Print)
Authors: Linda Morgan
Award-winning Alaskan chef Kirsten Dixon (MA in Gastronomy, 2002) will host a Culinary Arts enrichment program aboard Silver Shadow from 17-31 May sailing from Tokyo to Seward, Alaska.
Kristina Lupp (MA in Gastronomy, 2012 pending) will present a talk based on her dissertation entitled "Food Culture and Daily Life in Estonia 1918-1991" at Tartu College, Tallinn, Estonia.
Peter Cuong Franklin (MA in Gastronomy, 2010) is the chef/owner at ChômChôm which is a modern Vietnamese restaurant in Hong Kong which opened in January 2012.
Leigh Lambert (MA in Gastronomy, 2009) has made the headlines in the US with her brownie "The Starlet," a flavor that combines her classic creation the "Man Catcher" with chocolate-covered Pop Rocks dusted in edible gold, and which was included in one of the show bags distributed at the recent Oscar ceremonies.
Stephen Chaney (MA in Gastronomy 2009) has published an academic article based on his dissertation, in joint authorship with his supervisor Chris Ryan (University of Waikato, New Zealand), entitled "Analyzing the evolution of Singapore's World Gourmet Summit: An example of gastronomic tourism,"
International Journal of Hospitality Management 31(2): 309-318, 2012
Diana Noyce (MA in Gastronomy, 2010) has been actively working in several areas of research. With the nomination of 2011-12 as the Antarctic Centennial year, she has been investigating foods and meals in the Antarctic and presented a paper on the Midwinter celebration in Antarctic at the 2011 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. She subsequently gave a paper at the Australian Maritime Museum in Sydney entitled "Hoosh, Dogs and Seal Meat: The Role of Food in the Race to the Pole". Diana's research on Charles Darwin's penchant for eating ‘strange flesh' will be published in Gastronomica in May 2012 under the title "Charles Darwin: The Gourmet Traveller".
Meanwhile, Diana has been asked to research the seventeenth-century Dutch ship, Duyfken, a replica of which is moored at the Museum, and is planning a Dutch Christmas dinner at the Museum. Diana’s article on Christmas at the Australian Antarctic station was published in the Weekend Australian on 24 December, 2011. She also has published an article entitled Coffee Palaces in Australia: A Pub with No Beer in the online journal M/C Journal 15(2), 2012.
Jacqui Newling (MA in Gastronomy, 2007) remains fascinated by the food and foodways in the early years of New South Wales and hopes to start research towards a PhD in 2012. In her role as guide for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, she has initiated the Colonial Gastronomy series at events at various Trust properties, such as a taste of convict rations at Hyde Park Barracks and making Christmas puddings from a nineteenth-century recipe at Vaucluse House and Elizabeth Farm.
Jacqui's paper, "A Universal Comfort - Tea in the Sydney penal settlement" was recently published in Locale: the Australasian-Pacific Journal of Regional Food Studies, while an earlier article, "Dining with Strangeness: European Foodways on the Eora Frontier", appeared in the Journal of Australian Colonial History (January 2011).
In 2012 Jacqui begins reasearch at the University of Sydney for the award of MPhil; her topic is "A re-evaluation of the Hungry Years: food and the first settlement of NSW'.
Tania Cammarano (MA in Gastronomy, 2006). A passion for food, professional writing and the internet have characterised Tania's career. After helping to launch Taste.com.au, Australia's number one recipe website, she went on a world trip where she indulged her love of food and wrote about it in a popular blog .
Upon her return, she moved to Melbourne where she is now a freelance food writer and blogger. Tania is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide doing research on the history of Italian food in Australia.
Jane Levi (MA in Gastronomy, 2006) presented a paper at the 2011 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery entitled "Melancholy and Mourning: Black Banquets and Funerary Feasts," a longer version of which has been accepted for publication in Gastronomica. She is currently pursuing her PhD through the Doctoral Program in Humanities and Cultural Studies at the London Consortium (a collaboration between the Architectural Association, Birkbeck College at the University of London) the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Science Museum, and TATE), doing research for a dissertation focused on food in utopias.
Wendy Blackwood (MA in Gastronomy, 2009) In Toronto, Canada, Wendy is busy doing food product research, writing marketing copy and consulting for an Italian supermarket chain based in Ontario. She also consults to supermarkets on setting up and operating in-store cooking schools, and on food-focused special event planning.
Mel Marshan (MA in Gastronomy, 2011) is working in trade marketing at Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA), which represents the 40,000 beef, lamb, veal, and goat meat producers in Australia. She spends most of her time working with chefs and butchers on promotions, training and education, and networking at events, as well as writing for a red meat journal. Her dissertation examined consumer perceptions of goat meat, and how to popularise goat to the Australian consumer. Although goat meat is a very small component of what MLA promotes, since her thesis she has been able to present at the Goat Industry Council, assist on updating the goat meat information for consumers on the MLA website, and run supply days to bring together producers, chefs, and butchers to work on building demand for goat meat.
Anita Stewart (MA in Gastronomy, 2003) was recently honoured with the award of Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) by the University of Guelph, in recognition of her work as a culinary activist, especially in promoting awareness of Canada's agricultural produce, its cooks and its restaurants. Anita is the author of 14 books on Canadian food, her latest Anita Stewart's CANADA: The Food, The Recipes, The Stories becoming a best-seller and winning a Cuisine Canada Gold Award. Read more about Anita Stewart. In 2003 Anita initiated and coordinated The World's Longest Barbecue as a response to the imposition of sanctions on Canadian beef in the wake of a case of BSE in Alberta, Canada. This event has evolved into the celebration known since 2009 as Food Day Canada, a festival celebrating Canada's agricultural produce, its rich culinary heritage and the best managed food system on the planet, held each year in the August long weekend .
Bangkok Restaurants
Two University of Adelaide graduates, Duangporn (Bo) Songvisava and Yuvaporn Techasuriyamanee (BoBo) have established highly successful businesses in Bangkok.
Bo.Lan, the restaurant of Bo and her Australian partner, Dylan Jones, has been described as ‘one of Bangkok's hottest tables'.
Yuvaporn began with a bakery/café, Melting Moments, and recently became a partner in a new food and wine bar, The Bund - Modest Food & Wine.
If you happen to be visiting Bangkok, pay them a visit!
New Zealand Symposium for Food History
The 5th New Zealand Symposium for Food History will be held in Auckland, 25-27 November 2011.
The New Zealand Symposia for Food History are meetings devoted to the discussion of food history. They began in 2005 and are intended to promote greater understanding of New Zealand's culinary heritage. The Symposia are intimate, friendly and encourage networking and discussion. They also always include good meals.
Registration is open to all with an interest in food history, production or literature. Papers must be no longer than 45 minutes in duration.
Abstracts, together with a short biography of the presenters (multiple presenters and roundtable discussions are welcome) should be submitted, by 30 September 2011, to: andretaber@xtra.co.nz
For details: www.nzfoodhistory.org.nz
Taste and Travel International
Taste and Travel International is a new food and travel magazine launched in Canada this month by Janet Boileau. Janet graduated with the degree of MA in Gastronomy in 2008 and has now completed her PhD in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide.
