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Max Allen’s new book ‘Intoxicating’ on display at Dalwood Estate. (Photo: Dalwood Estate)
It’s been assumed by most of us that Aboriginal Australians never drank alcohol before white European settlers/invaders arrived in 1788. But, as Max Allen writes in his latest book, this is not true.
Allen isn’t the first to record this fact: Aboriginal historians and elders have known it for a long time, but it never penetrated the public (read: white) consciousness. It suited the white man to circulate the idea that Aboriginal problems with alcohol were due to the fact that they had no history of alcohol in their own culture and couldn’t handle it when Europeans introduced them to it. It’s a fascinating and engrossing book, superbly written as we’ve come to expect from Max Allen, and I highly recommend it.
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It seems that culinary betrayal by parents (C8) is a truly creative pursuit. Peter Johns of Foresters Beach says his brother used to hate parsnips: “But when my mother told him we were having ‘white carrots’ he loved them!” Similarly, Robert Nielson of Watsons Bay says: “My younger brother had a great aversion to stew when he was a child. However when explained to him that it was in fact savoury steak he was quite happy to eat it.”
No such luck for Don Bain of Port Macquarie: “
Crumbed brains . looksery! My Irish-born mother boiled them up, then served them unadorned, while assuring us they’d help us with our schoolwork!”