‘An Affaire de Stomach’ : promoting and resisting culinary change in Australian and New Zealand in the 1920s

This article surveys 1920s food writing in Australia and New Zealand to assess the contribution of this popular form of writing to social and cultural change during this period. Using examples from cookery books, magazines and newspapers, it explores how these popular publications provided a range of varied options and opinions for the 1920s reader to pick and choose from, in the process offering readers both innovation and ways of resisting change in terms of both culinary and social practices.