A Matter of Taste: The Australian Women's Weekly and Its Influence on Australian Food Culture

Since its inception in 1933, The Australian Women’s Weekly has been Australia’s highest-selling women’s magazine, largely due to its hugely popular cookery section and companion cookbooks. From birthday cakes to barbecues, mock meat to Chinese food, the Weekly taught generations of Australians what to eat and how to cook it at home. Yet despite this, the magazine and its influence on Australian cooking has been overlooked in histories of Australian food. A Matter of Taste restores the Weekl...