CULINARY ARCHIVE PODCAST
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
SEAWEED
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When you skip by seaweed on the beach or crunch into nori wrapped sushi rolls, you're interacting with something that also exists as billion-year-old ...
WINE
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australians have been raising our glasses for a long time. Our vintages have been winning international prizes since 1822 and there's currently a $2 b...
MUSHROOMS
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Onion stalk, parasol, bleeding fairy helmet, lawyer's wig, chicken of the woods, native bread and velvet shank are some of the mushrooms you'll find i...
HONEY
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is home to one of the world’s oldest honey cultures. For thousands of years, Indigenous people have harvested honey from sugarbag bees...
EEL
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's an eel known as a living fossil because it resembles its dinosaur-era ancestors. And the Budj Bim eel traps, at least 6600 years old, confirme...
MILK
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia's dairy industry began with a few cows brought in on the First Fleet in 1788, which escaped for a while and were later depicted in Dharawal ...
CULINARY ARCHIVE PODCAST, SEASON 2 TRAILER
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join food journalist Lee Tran Lam to explore Australia’s foodways. Leading Australian food producers, creatives and innovators reveal the comple...
SOYBEANS
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1770, naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander reportedly saw wild soybeans in Botany Bay. The following century, the Japanese government sent ...
TOMATOES
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The tomato was dismissed as poison for 200 years in Italy, though it’s now celebrated as a staple of its cuisine. Italian migration to Australia hel...
COFFEE
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is famous for its coffee culture, but it didn’t begin with Italian post-war migration. There was the rise of coffee palaces during the 19t...
BEER + VEGEMITE
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Australian colonial history begins with beer: the Endeavour left England with 250 barrels on board. The drink reflects the changing fortunes of women,...
GRAINS
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Long before local authorities tried to ban sliced bread, Australia was home to the world’s first bakers. Grindstones, some 65,000 years old, suggest...
OYSTERS
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The history of Australia can be told in an oyster shell. For thousands of years, First Nations communities feasted on these mollusks and collected the...
CULINARY ARCHIVE PODCAST TRAILER
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder how a by-product of beer gave us Vegemite, an Australian icon? Have you heard about the bakers producing pide, damper or Johnny cakes from...