Bold Palates is lovingly researched and extensively illustrated. Barbara Santich helps us to a deeper understanding of Australian identity by examining the way we eat. Not simply a gastronomic history, her book is also a history of Australia and Australians.

Handwritten recipes passed through the generations, tales of goats running wild in colonial gardens and early settlers' experimentation with native foods ...Eat Your History dishes up stories and recipes from Australian kitchens and dining tables from 1788 to the 1950s. Jacqui Newling, resident gastronomer at Sydney Living Museums, invites you to share forgotten tastes and lost techniques, and to rediscover some delicious culinary treasures.