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Tasmanian way-a-linah, a cider-link drink produced by Palawa people for millennia, has been long overlooked in Australian history, along with all other Indigenous fermented beverages.
Records of many First Australians’ traditions, particularly relating to drinks and agriculture, were “eradicated early on by colonization, dispossession and the frontier wars,” writes Max Allen in
“Even where the practices or knowledge did survive and were recorded, those records have often been willfully ignored by the dominant culture over the last 200 years.”
It was so ignored that the belief that Australia is the world’s lone “dry continent,” that its early Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples were among the planet’s few Indigenous societies to live without learning to make alcoholic beverages, remains widespread Down Under.
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Decanter
The best in contemporary food and drink writing recognised
The winners of the 2020
André Simon Awards were announced on Wednesday 3 March, in a Zoom ceremony attended by an international audience.
The winner of the Drink Award was
Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia, a personal journey through Australia’s colourful and complex drinking history, by Max Allen.
‘What made
Intoxicating the outstanding work in the group was Max Allen’s achievement in weaving the minor world of drinks into a major historical and cultural context,’ said John Hoskins MW, one of two independent assessors overseeing the judging panel. ‘This is a book that anyone with an interest in humanity would enjoy; it is a drinks book that will stand the test of time.’