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W a k e f i e l d P r e s sM e d i a R e l e a s e
July 2009Looking for FlavourNew Edition
by
Barbara Santich
ISBN 9781862548596 RRP $29.95 NZ$34.90 Food/Gastronomy/Culture
www.wakefieldpress.com.au
There are books I consider to be essential to the understanding of gastronomy: Brillat-Savarin’s Physiology of Taste; M.F.K. Fisher’s The Art of Eating and Barbara Santich’s Looking for Flavour. Barbara Santich is without doubt one of the world’s great food thinkers: at once balanced and honest, opinionated and adventurous. – Anita Stewart
Barbara Santich is an author, researcher, teacher and internationally renowned food historian. Fundamental to her work is a belief that what, how and why we eat is intimately connected to our culture. In her writing food is not merely a commodity; it is also, as Roland Barthes famously insisted, a system of communication.
Looking for Flavour, recognised with an Australian Food Writers’ Award in 1997 as best soft-cover food-related book, is both an individual adventure and a key to understanding other societies. As Tim Pak Poy writes, ‘Barbara Santich’s erudite stroll through the marketplace reveals how history has influenced the way Australian diners are today. By addressing our desire to socialise, our willingness to trust, and our aesthetic eye it holds a window to the culinary future’.
In this expanded second edition of Looking for Flavour Barbara adds a major new essay discussing changes in the food supply, not only in Australia but also globally, and their implications, notably the vastly increased variety of food available in markets and supermarkets, cafes and restaurants. At the same time Barbara reflects on themes introduced in the first edition: culture and tradition, continuity and change. Above all, she continues to encourage everyone to ‘taste, reflect and compare, alive to the rewards of flavour and sensible to its absence’.
Barbara Santich is a highly respected academic at the University of Adelaide where she introduced postgraduate courses in both food writing and food history and culture. Barbara has also written: The Original Mediterranean Cuisine (Wakefield Press, 1995); What the Doctors Ordered: 150 Years of Dietary Advice in Australia (Hyland House, 1995); Apples to Zampone (Wakefield Press 1996, 1999); McLaren Vale: Sea & Vines (Wakefield Press 1998); and In the Land of the Magic Pudding: A Gastronomic Miscellany (ed.) (Wakefield Press 2000), short-listed in the World Food Media Awards in 2001.
Barbara is available for interview
Sydney, Australia May 2009
Top Chefs Turn up the Heat with
The Council of Italian Restaurants in Australia (CIRA), a collection
of Sydney’s best known Italian chefs including Armando
Percuoco, Lucio Galletto, Logan Campbell, Danny Russo, and
George Pompei; are heating up the CIRA Kitchen just in time for
winter.
The 17th Symposium of Australian Gastronomy
Adelaide, South Australia, 13-16 November, 2009.
The 17th Symposium of Australian Gastronomy will be held in Adelaide,
South Australia, 13-16 November, 2009.
Venue: Noel Lothian Hall, Botanic Gardens, Adelaide.
The 17th symposium celebrates 25 years since the first symposium was
held in 1984, also in Adelaide, and will honour the contribution made
by as many of the original participants as we can get to attend! -
including Cheong Liew, Michael Symons, Gay Bilson, Barbara Santich,
Phillip Searle, Jennifer Hillier and Catherine Kerry.
This symposium's theme marks another return as well, to a fundamental
concept:
ECONOMY
...that doesn't mean "7 STEPS TO ROCK-BOTTOM FOOD COSTS" -although it
might!!- and yes, that is an actual book!!
but...
*sustainability*
*the real economy*
*eco-economies*
*kitchen economy*
*frugality*
*simplicity*
*oikonomos -the ancient Greek origin of "economy" -meaning household
steward*
Events: wood-fired oven cooking, botanic adventures, passionate
discussion, guests chefs, fine food and
drink...
See Events and Activities and Call for Papers (menu at left)
Latest News
The Centre's Sakai Web Portal is now functioning and most members have been sent passwords already (late October). Usernames can be made up and filled in by users themselves; only the issued password can be used as the pin. Please take the time to look at this interactive site. It provides a number of ways to contact fellow members and communicate in a number of formats: blog, chat, wiki, discussion borad, etc. Any comments welcome.
Workshop
In Association with University of Adelaide’s Asian Studies Department
The Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink
Presents
a Workshop to be held on
Thursday, December 4, 2008, at the University of Adelaide
Rm 406/7, 4th Floor, Ligertwood Bldg, University of Adelaide, North Tce, Adelaide, 8.30-12.30 p.m.
Gastronomy, Religion and Culture in the Asia-Pacific
As part of the week-long Crossing
Borders conference being held at The University of Adelaide, this
workshop will appeal to all those interested in the dynamics of food
culture. The Workshop will be structured around four papers presented
by noted authorities in the Asia-Pacific food culture: Professor Tan
Chee-Beng (Hong Kong), Dr Nir Avieli (Israel), Dr Jean Duruz (South
Australia), and Professor Nancy Pollock (New Zealand). Post-graduates
and scholars working in food studies and gastronomy are invited and
encouraged to take part in discussion of the papers presented. Papers
will be made available in advance of the workshop to Research Centre
Members, online at the Research Centre's new Sakai Website. Participants are invited to read the papers before attending the workshop.
Workshop Program
8.30 Registration
8.50. Welcome and Introductions.
9.00. Professor Tan Chee-Beng (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
“Food and Religion and Chinese Culture Crossing Borders”
9.30. Dr Nir Avieli (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University, Israel):
“In
Christmas we don't like Pork, just like the Maccabees: Festive Food and
Religious Identity in the Protestant Christmas Picnic in Vietnam.”
10.00 Discussion
10.30 Morning Tea
11.00. Nancy J. Pollock (Victoria University of Wellington):
“Asian Influences on Pacific Gastronomy”
11.30. Jean Duruz (University of South Australia)
“Growing up Transnational: travelling through Singapore’s hawker centres.”
12.00 Discussion
12.30 Lunch & Close.
*Half-Day
registration (incl. morning tea and lunch) $55.00 or $45.00 (Post Grad
Student or Concession) Conference Dinner $85.00 (with matched wines) @
The Adelaide Hilton Brasserie: “Seriously South Australian” menu.
For ONLINE Registration go to: Gastronomy Workshop
2009
In the past two years, Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre has held an annual Interfaith Forum run along the popular theme of combining faith and food. In 2009, Nexus will be holding this Community Interfaith Forum ‘Faith and Food - Abraham’s Supper’ on Thursday 19 February 6-10pm. The Forum will be held in the Nexus Cabaret Space at Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre located at the Lion Arts Centre, City West.
‘ABRAHAM'S SUPPER' will incorporate dialogue, food tasting, and
music. A panel of 3 key speakers, each drawn from the following faiths:
Christian, Muslim and Jewish, will talk for a maximum of 15-20 minutes,
highlighting the cultural practices and rituals of particular foods
associated with their faiths. The talks will focus on Abraham as the
ancient Patriarch of three major world religions: Judaism, Christianity
and Islam. Afterwards, the panel would be open to the audience, who
will later sample foods associated with the 3 faiths in a multifaith
platter; and listen to spiritual music.
Dr Noris Ioannou
Executive Director
Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre Inc
Cnr North Tce & Morphett St
Adelaide SA 5000
T 08 8212 4276
Newsletters
- The latest newsletter has been issued electronically (October 2008) and is now available directly from the website (Publications link) Back issues are also available. Paper edition publication of the newsletter have ceased.
Centre Seminar 2009
- The Centre invites members to contribute theme ideas for a proposed 2009 seminar (May). Food and Disgust: a seminar on the taboo, the unsavoury, and the decidely "other." More details on this will be posted in the new year (January 2009) along with a formal call for papers.
Centre Conference 2009
The Centre will play an active role in convening the 25th Anniversary Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, in Adelaide, in November 2009. See the latest Newsletter (Oct 2008) for breif details. More information will be forthcoming.
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