Tasting History is a four year funded research initiative focusing on the dense, multivalent histories of everyday foodstuffs, including hard tack, Anzac biscuits, and frybread. The heart of the project is a series of participatory taste workshops, designed to promote taste as a method for understanding history, culture, and politics.
Events
- April 26, 2019: Project launch at Everyday Militarisms, University of Sydney organized by Astrida Neimanis and Tess Lea
- November 22 & 23, 2019: Two 3-hour-long participatory taste workshops at Cementa 19. Presented in collaboration with the Kandos Country Women’s Association. Cementa is a regionally situated, socially-engaged, artist-led organisation. The annual program of residencies and special projects culminates in the biennial Cementa Festival, which brings together over 60 regional and urban artists for a four-day celebration of Australian contemporary art and the small town that hosts it, Kandos NSW. My residency period was June 1-21, 2019.
- April 23, 2020: Bake Together: Anzac Biscuits Live co-hosted with culinary historian Allison Reynolds
- November 19, 2022: Emerge: Eating at the Edges co-hosted with Hope Peshlakai of Hope’s Frybread & Erickson Billy of Blue Naadą́ą́ Sweets and supported by ASU and the Mesa Arts Center
Media engagement
- The Conversation April 23, 2019
- ABC Adelaide radio appearance, April 24, 2019
- WA Afternoons ABC Perth radio appearance, April 24, 2019
- Chewy or crispy? Researching biscuits with military connections by Diane Nazaroff, October 15, 2019
- ABC Radio National RN Drive, October 25, 2019.
- Pantry Pick on ABC South East NSW, October 28, 2019.
- The Conversation April 20, 2020
- ‘Drive’ on 2SER, April 20, 2020
- ABC Radio Sydney, April 21, 2020
- RTRFM Perth, April 21, 2020
- Bake ANZAC biscuits with a crew at this virtual bake-off event by Divya Venkataraman for Time Out Sydney
- ABC Radio Canberra, April 21, 2020
- ABC Radio Coffs Coast, April 22, 2020
- ABC Radio Darwin, April 22, 2020
- UNSOMNIA 2020 asks: What can we learn while we are apart?, September 8, 2020.
- ABC Radio National Big Ideas, October 22, 2020.
- Queensland Afternoons with Kat Feeney, October 28, 2022.
Blog posts
- Sydney Environment Institute, “Everyday Militarisms in the Kitchen: Tasting History” [archived on Wayback: Everyday Militarisms in the Kitchen_ Tasting History — Sydney Environment Institute]
Videos
Publications (pdfs soon!)
2022:
Kelley, Lindsay. “Biscuit Production and Consumption as War Re-enactment.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2022.2106357).
Kelley, Lindsay. “Everyday militarisms in the kitchen: Baking strange with Anzac biscuits.” In Food in Memory and Imagination: Place, Space and Taste, edited by Beth Forrest and Greg de St Maurice. London: Bloomsbury.
2021:
Kelley, Lindsay. “Hard Tack.” In Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive, edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan Reid, Pia van Gelder and Astrida Neimanis. London: Open Humanities Press.
Photo archives
- Documentation of Everyday Militarisms launch (credits in photo metadata)
- Documentation of Cementa19: entire festival & photos from the workshop (credits in photo metadata NB consent was obtained for all photographs taken inside the workshop)
2019-2022: This research is being conducted with approval from UNSW Human Ethics Research (#HC190344) and is funded by the Australian Research Council and UNSW Art & Design.
2022 onward: The ethical aspects of this research have been approved by the ANU Human Research Ethics Committee (Protocol 2022/478) and is funded by the Australian Research Council and the ANU School of Art & Design.