Mina Rawson, Australia's first female cookbook author

curried iguana, pumpkin stuffed with flying fox and herb essence

Welcome to this week’s newsletter, a dip into Australia’s food history, which features a host of interesting people, many of whom are not particularly well known. Reading a little about their lives offers some insight into society at the time, what life looked like, and what people were eating. Mrs Lance Rawson, the name under which she authored her boo…