THE DELICIOUS. PRODUCE AWARDS are all well and good, celebrating the best producers and growers out there, but who celebrates those first pioneers of the fields, factories and kitchens, whose ideas became matters of national pride? Me, that’s who! So, here it is, my honour roll of Australia’s great food inventions:
From South Australia’s heritage-listed Pie Floater, first served in the 1890s at Ern ‘Shorty’ Bradley’s Port Pirie coffee cart, to that glorious mix of mince, tomatoes and spaghetti that we know as Spag Bol (all the – one of the proudest titles in my old cookbook collection.
