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| Product Information | |||
| Date published | October 2011 | ||
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| Pages | 408 pages | ||
| Format | Paperback | ||
| Size | 153mm x 234mm x 45mm | ||
| Weight | 685 g | ||
| ISBN | 978-1-921778-27-8 | ||
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Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer And Lamingtons
Victoria Heywood
- Overview
- The Author
- Media
Overview
Possum Pie,Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons brings together around 500 lost recipes from the Australia of yesterday, gathered from farmhouse attics, dusty archives, long-defunct magazines and newspapers, family bookshelves, private and state collections. Beautifully designed with a nostalgic feel and illustrated with advertisements of the day, it brings to life what we ate when – from the days of early settlement, through two World Wars, The Great Depression and days of rationing right up to the heady days of the 1950s when the good housewife reigned supreme. Sprinkled with hilarious advice from the time, Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons pulls some marvellous old recipes out of oblivion. It also details recipes for some dishes that, because of modern tastes and diets, have been deservedly lost. Jottings in the margin explain some of the more esoteric ingredients and suggest modern replacements and equivalents.
About the author
Victoria Heywood
Victoria Heywood came across many weird, supposedly edible, things in 17 years' travelling the world as a journalist, but none so strange as some of the dished she encountered back home in Australia when researching Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons. In a writing career spanning 20-odd years, Heywood has written extensively about food, sex, health and travel for magazines and newspapers both here and abroad, and is the author of numerous books.
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The Australian, Saturday, November 19, 2011
'A slice of posterity pie', Victoria Heywood writes about her adventures uncovering lost recipes for The Australian.
VisitVineyards.com Friday, November 11, 2011
Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons by Victoria Heywood is listed as number eight in VisitVineyards.com's Top 12 Cookbooks of 2011.
VisitVineyards.com Monday, November 7, 2011
VisitVineyards.com reviews Victoria Heywood's new book, Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons. They note that, "Many of the recipes in Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons you will never even think of cooking – but then, that applies just as much to celebrity chef cookbooks, whose recipes are often beyond the capability of the home chef. They are dream books; this is nostalgia, touching and often hilarious, but with enough real substance and practicality to make it a useful addition to your Australian cookbook collection – it may well become a collector’s item in itself".
Australian Women's Weekly, November edition 2011
The Australian Women's Weekly feature Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons in their 'Books for Cooks' section.
Herald Sun, Weekend supplement, Saturday, October 22, 2011
The Herald Sun include Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons as one of the week's must see, do, buy items. They describe the book as, 'A hilarious, interesting and often stomach-churning look at old-school Oz.'
The Age, Epicure, Tuesday, October 25,2011
Epicure's Richard Cornish describes Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons as 'simply an entertaining omnibus of forgotten cookery.'
The Circle, Channel 10, Monday, October 17, 2011
Victoria Heywood dazzles The Circle with her Frozen Taffy and Cinnamon Tea Cake deserts taken from Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons.
ABC774 Conversation Hour with Jon Faine, Monday, October 10, 2011
Victoria Heywood joins author John Bailey, and actor and voice-over artist John Flaus, on ABC774's Conversation Hour with Jon Faine to discuss Australian history - including what we ate way back when.
The Launceston Examiner, Saturday, September 24, 2011
The Launceston Examiner review Victoria Heywood's new book, Possum Pie, Beetroot Beer and Lamingtons. They describe it as delivering 'weird as well as wonderfully simple, tried and true recipes and home hints from a bygone era.'