This food timeline started as a way to explore the revolution in Australian food that has occurred during the baby-boomers’ lifetime, but has since expanded to include more about the previous decades (and century) as well. Also included are overseas events and trends that had an impact here. The entries are brief, but there are lots of links if you want more information.
We’d had the International Year of the Potato. Then the United Nations declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses. As in beans, peas, lentils and chickpeas. The motivation was both ecological and health-oriented and the UN cited the rise of obesity as a reason to eat less meat and more vegetable protein. So – pulses. […]
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