Lunchtime Talk: Jacqui Newling

 

Jacqui Newling is resident gastronomer at Sydney Living Museums. She is 'the Cook' in SLM’s The Cook and the Curator blog, author of Eat your history: stories and recipes from Australian kitchens (2015) and hosts regular colonial gastronomy workshops in SLM’s historic properties. Jacqui explores Australian cultural history through food – not simply what history can tell us about food, but what food reveals about us – our history, our heritage and our identity – past and present. Drawing from old menus, cookbooks and manuscript recipes, she takes a hands-on approach, working with obscure ingredients and traditional methods to rediscover arcane tastes, forgotten flavours, lost culinary arts and techniques.