1963 – 1970 white bread and jam

Dear reader,
Ingredients:
1 White Bread Aussie girl(I cannot help this)
1 Country childhood
1 family of 8
1 large extended and close family
Lots of ‘Good cooks’

Method: I commence my story here, a trip into the back story of Australia’s food history.
My life with food began long ago at my mother’s breast. I fed well and found nourishment and solace early on from food much to my self esteem’s and self image’s chagrin.
All through my life food – the good, the bad and the uneatable has played an integral ingredient within my journey through childhood, parenthood, full-time work, trauma and my social life.
It has been my enemy, my counsellor, my friend and my God.
There are so many parallels between food and my life story.
I ponder how we are so ‘in love’ with food shows, and why? What are we missing? Why do we watch and not ‘Do’?
How did we get so far removed from the basic principal of food as nourishment and survival.
What really interests me is how my life changed through our attitudes to the foods we ate in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
What food ‘Big Bangs’, do I remember that still ‘get to me’ today?
Are Australian’s just a bunch of food snobs? Do we really remember our ‘White bread and Jam’ past?
Many of our Mega chefs had affluent or middle class childhoods – their families could afford ‘flash foods’. What about the average family? Making do and using what they had?
I hope dear reader you will continue through this recipe book
of my life.
This blog will bake for up to one week.