Australian books
Blainey, Geoffrey Black Kettle and Full Moon, Penguin, 2003
Downes, Stephen Advanced Australian Fare, Allen & Unwin, 2002
Durack, Terry Yum: A voyage around my stomach, W. Heinemann Australia, 1996
Evans, Matthew Never Order Chicken on a Monday, Random House, 2007
Fahey, Warren Tucker Track: The Curious History of Food in Australia, ABC: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 2005
Harden, Michael Lygon Street, Murdoch Books, 2008
Harden, Michael Of a Nation: Nestle Peters 100th Anniversary, Hardie Grant, 2007
Humphrey, Kim Shelf Life: Supermarkets and the Changing Cultures of Consumption, Cambridge University Press, 1998
O’Brien, Charmain Flavours of Melbourne, Wakefield Press, 2008
Shun Wah, Annette & Aitkin, Greg Banquet: Ten Courses to Harmony, Doubleday 1999
Symons, Michael One Continuous Picnic, Melbourne University Press, 2007 (2nd Edition)
Wheelhouse, Frances Digging Stick to Rotary Hoe, Rigby Limited, 1973
The Age Good Food Guide, Penguin, Various years
The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide, Penguin, Various years
Books from elsewhere
Cowen, Ruth Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer , Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2006
Davidson, Alan (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Food, Oxford University Press, 1999
Dickie, John Delizia! The Epic History of Italians and Their Food, Hodder & Stoughton, 2007
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Harper Collins, 2007
Lovegren, Sylvia Fashionable Food:Seven decades of food fads, University of Chicago Press, 2005
Mallet, Gina Last Chance to Eat, W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
Petrini, Carlo & Waters, Alice Slow Food Nation, Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2007
Pollan, Michael The Omnivores’s Dilemma, Bloomsbury,2006
Shephard, Sue Pickled, Potted and Canned, Headline, 2000
Steingarten, Jeffrey It Must Have Been Something I Ate, Review, 2002
Steingarten, Jeffrey The Man Who Ate Everything, Headline Book Publishing, 1997
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Melbourne 1988, Online edition updated November 2001 Chapters 1 and 2 deal with agriculture and food technology
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare: Australia’s Food and Nutrition 2012 Primarily a resource for public health and food professionals
Australian Food News used to have the latest food industry news but is unfortunately now defunct. The archive is still available online though.
Australian Food: 40 dishes locals like to call their own CNN Travel
Eat Your History Museum of Sydney: The Cook and the Curator
Farmers and Farming Australian Bureau of Statistics 2012
Food in Victoria: State Library of Victoria
Joy of Baking An alphabetical history of baking from Afternoon Tea to Valentine’s Day.
Monroe M. H. Australia: The Land Where Time Began Website updated November 2013
State Library of Victoria Food in Victoria (Research Guide) List of useful resources
Wine Literature of the World: State Library of South Australia
Australian Parliament: Time Line of Retail Grocery Trends Appendix to Senate Report, c2000
Arnott’s: The History of Arnott’s Timeline of Australia’s biscuit giant
Carlton & United Breweries A history of Victoria’s brewing giant and its prececessors
Food Engineering Magazine A somewhat technical history of food technology (for example, 2000: Automated gamma, e-beam and x-ray irradiation plants). Stops at 2002.
Food Reference A comprehensive food timeline from pre-history to the present, with particular focus on the USA.
Food Timeline: Food history research service World food timeline by America-based food historian and librarian Lynne Olver. Not pretty, but comprehensive and well-researched
Lion: Our history Timeline of many iconic beer and dairy brands and how they came to be owned by Kirin Holdings of Japan.
McDonald’s Australia Timeline of Macca’s history in Australia
USFirehouse: A History of Soda Pop History of American soft drinks including a timeline of packaging innovations.
Wikipedia: Timeline of agriculture and food technology Lots of links to food-related Wikipedia articles
Wikipedia: Timeline of Food Lists the dates that a variety of American brands emerged.
Woolworths: How we were founded Milestones in Woolworths corporate history
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