1929-1932 Great depression
The Wall Street crash of October 1929 heralded a worldwide depression that saw one in three Australian breadwinners unemployed. In… Read More
The Wall Street crash of October 1929 heralded a worldwide depression that saw one in three Australian breadwinners unemployed. In… Read More
The Blue Heaven milk shake is an all-Australian invention, but its origins are unknown. What we do know is that… Read More
In 1929 the Australian government set up the Wine Overseas Marketing Board. It was financed by a levy on all… Read More
In an article in The Telegraph, Brisbane, in 1929, Margaret Cullen wrote about Robert Walsh's Redcliffe garden where avocados… Read More
Although people had been putting hundred and thousands (or nonpareils) on bread and butter for some time, the first known… Read More
In 1929, a number of Buderim ginger growers formed the first Ginger Growers' Association with a view to developing the… Read More
The Mastercraft Scorched Peanut Bar began life as the White Signet Scorched Peanut Bar, first advertised in 1928. White Signet… Read More
In 1928, a 23-year-old entrepreneur named Oliver Kenneth McAnulty opened a processed cheese factory in Brisbane. His Maxam Cheese operation… Read More
In the town of Chillicothe in Missouri, the eponymous Chillicothe Baking Company was the first company to use a slicing… Read More
The first espresso machine in Australia, according to the Massoni family, was installed by Rinaldo Massoni at the Café Florentino… Read More
James Lambert of the Australian National Dictionary Centre has unearthed a reference to this popular fast food in the Melbourne… Read More
Rinaldo Massoni purchased Café Denat in Bourke Street, Melbourne, in 1928 and changed the name to Café Florentino. Now called… Read More
MacPherson Robertson began making sweets in 1880 and by the late 1920s had 17 factories employing 2600 people. The Max-Mints… Read More
The Emily McPherson College was originally known as the College of Domestic Economy, opened in 1907. By the mid-1920s, the… Read More
It was a restaurant that defined its era. Romano's Restaurant in Sydney was the epitome of glamour, with everyone in… Read More
The confectionery company Darrell Lea was founded in Sydney by an English immigrant, Harry Levy, in 1927, and named after… Read More
The inventor of Aeroplane Jelly was a tram driver. Bert Appleroth first made jelly crystals at home in his bathtub… Read More
In 1927, the Queensland Figaro and Punch published an article recommending brunch as a substitute for Sunday lunch. It seemed… Read More
After the ceremony, the official party, including the Duke and Duchess of York, lunched on turtle soup, poached schnapper, fillets… Read More
The Victorian Railways Refreshment Branch opened a stall selling freshly squeezed orange and lemon juice drinks at Melbourne's Flinders Street… Read More
Gordon Edgell and Sons of Bathurst launched their canned asparagus in 1926 after 18 years of experimentation in growing the… Read More
During the early to mid-20th century, steak and eggs was considered by many to be Australia's national dish. In 1926,… Read More
Although no longer Australian-owned, MasterFoods (variously Master Foods and Masterfoods) is an Australian brand that traces its history back to… Read More
The Melbourne entrepreneur, Fred Walker, had been experimenting with the processing of cheese. Learning about the process that had been developed and… Read More
The Quickfri pan was an English invention and was on the market in Australia the same year it was introduced in… Read More
It started as a marketing idea. The original recipe for the Empire Christmas Pudding was published in an advertisement developed… Read More
Australian-style asparagus rolls consist of asparagus tips, often from a can, rolled in buttered, thinly sliced bread. An alternative or… Read More
When I was growing up in the 1950s, there were certain Easter traditions my family observed. Good Friday meant hot… Read More
The Cherry Ripe bar was introduced in 1924 by MacRobertson Chocolates (later to be taken over by Cadbury in 1967)… Read More
Although today's Kirks soft drinks proudly boast "Since 1865" there is no evidence for that date of origin. The two… Read More
In 2016, the revised edition of the Macquarie Dictionary included the term "double-cut roll" for the first time. But this… Read More
Spencer Cottee , a dairy farmer from Lismore NSW developed Passiona cordial which, when carbonated, became the foundation product of… Read More
The Chairman of the Victorian Railways Commissioners, Harold Clapp, wanted to see primary producers succeed, so the railways would succeed… Read More
XXXX Bitter Ale was released by the Castlemaine Brewery in Brisbane in October 1924. The beer was promoted using a… Read More
Seventh Day Adventist Dr John Harvey Kellogg filed a patent for flaked cereal process in 1895 when he and his… Read More
The Green and Gold Cookery Book was one of the earliest ‘charity’ cookbooks and was compiled as a fundraising initiative of King's… Read More
The first commercially available, Australian-made domestic refrigerator to operate without ice was produced by Edward Hallstrom in 1923. It used kerosene… Read More
As part of a campaign to promote fruit sales, Victorian Railways Commissioner Harold Clapp had a bakery built to produce… Read More
The Bowker family moved to Laura, 240km north of Adelaide, in 1870 and in 1880 began selling the milk and… Read More
As other Australian states had done in the previous decade, Queensland introduced earlier closing times for pubs, but chose slightly more civilised… Read More
Brisbane Cash and Carry (BCC) was among the first Australian self service grocery stores, opened by Claud Archibald Fraser in 1923.… Read More
Vegemite was developed by food technologist Cyril P. Callister for the Australian company Fred Walker & Co. in 1922 and,… Read More
Frog Cakes are small cakes made from two layers of sponge with a jam filling, topped by a dome of… Read More
A company called Grain Products Limited added small amounts of sugar and malt to flaked cereal biscuits and launched Weet-Bix… Read More
Minties were invented in 1922 by James Noble Stedman and marketed under the Sweetacres brand. They were patented in 1926.… Read More
Australia had been the first export market for the British chocolate giant, Cadbury. In 1922, a consortium of the British… Read More
There's a lot more to the Country Women's Association (known everywhere in Australia just as the CWA) than tea and… Read More
Although giving away samples had been common at the various Royal and country shows for some time, it appears that… Read More
The Eskimo Pie – a foil-wrapped ice cream bar covered in chocolate – was invented by Christian Kent Nelson in… Read More
In 1921, in Sydney, a group of businessmen, reportedly Americans, formed a company "To acquire by agreement from Mint Products… Read More
Writing in The Argus in 1922, Mr F Lewis of the Fisheries Department sought to persuade Victorians to eat gummy… Read More
Some accounts would have it that the Violet Crumble dates back to 1913, while the manufacturers say 1923. The true… Read More
The Group Settlement Scheme in the south-west of Western Australia was a government venture designed to establish a dairy industry.… Read More
The Nellie Kelly passionfruit is one of the most widely grown varieties in Australia, particularly in the southern states. It… Read More
Along with the Pavlova, the Anzac Biscuit has a contested heritage. There is some dispute about the date of the… Read More
Streets Ice Cream was founded by Edwin (Ted) Street in Corrimal, a suburb of Wollongong, where he and his wife… Read More
It was one of the first Australian foods to be included in Slow Food International's Ark of Taste - a… Read More
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