Angels, Devils and Cookbooks: keeping and sharing stories about food
Description
Who decided to wrap a prune in bacon and call it a ‘devil on horseback’? What makes a cake angelic? It’s time to spice up your Friday night and enjoy some culinary history focused on good and evil. Not only will you get to hear the back story of foods associated with angels and devils, you will also be tempted to taste these spiritually-inspired morsels.
This is a unique opportunity to feast your senses on an evening of delectable hors d'oeuvres, light-hearted food history, devilishly good wine (with non-alcoholic options), and atmospheric music in an 1840s church building.
Food historian, curator and author of Eat Your History, Dr Jacqui Newling, will be in conversation with social history curator Alison Wishart.
All funds raised will go towards the restoration of the state heritage-listed Pitt Street Uniting Church Organ, which was installed in 1910 by Hill and Son.
Please note: we are unable to accommodate all dietary requirements but there will be a variety of food and hopefully something you can eat!
Questions? Email: office@pittstreetuniting.org.au
This event is part of 2026 NSW History Week.
Photograph of the Hill and Son organ at Pitt Street Uniting Church, 2023 (c) Hazel Hogarth
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Dr Jacqui Newling
Dr Jacqui Newling takes a hands-on approach to her work, exploring and often recreating recipes from the past to develop a closer understanding of tastes, textures and techniques once common in Australians’ culinary repertoire. She encourages people to reflect upon their own food memories and culinary heritage, and consider what has been kept and what has been lost, and what can be revived, and shared as living history. Photo: (c) Kym Vaitiekus
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Alison Wishart
Alison Wishart has published about food and early cookery classes in Victorian schools; the importance of food and water in the outcome of the Gallipoli campaign of 1915; and the dried fruits industry and soldier settlement scheme in southern Australia. She works as a social history curator, local history librarian and tries to cook. Photo: (c) Harjono Djoyobisono
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