ver curious podcaster, contributor and journalist Lee Tran Lam offers a new hungry. Each episode is centred around an ingredient – including oysters, tomatoes and brewer’s yeast – and draws upon the Powerhouse Museum’s 500,000-plus collection of objects as inspiration. Idiosyncratic and interesting finds include a Ken Done pasta sauce from the 1990s (for an episode where we explore tomatoes); Vegemite’s PR nightmare that was iSnack 2.0; and news archives documenting the 1960s feminist fight for women to be allowed in public bars in pubs (they were only allowed in the ladies lounge). Chefs including Shannon Martinez, Aalia’s Paul Farag and Joseph Vargetto, also pop in to chat about the modern context of ingredients.
