EMERGENCE OF MODERN FOOD CULTURE IN AUSTRALIA (1788–c.1950).

The article focuses on the emergence of modern food culture in Australia from 1788 to around 1950, emphasizing the role of print media in shaping public discourse on food and cooking. It outlines how British colonists initially displaced indigenous foodways, bringing maritime survival rations and British culinary traditions that evolved slowly through newspapers, magazines, and cookery books into a distinct Australian cuisine. The development of weekly newspapers and cookery education in the late nineteenth century helped raise public awareness and improve domestic cooking, while the Australian Women's Weekly, launched in 1933, popularized cookery as a pastime and a site of cultural change. Throughout this period, print media served both to reflect and influence evolving attitudes toward food, nutrition, and culinary practices, laying the foundation for Australia's modern multicultural food culture.