Abstract
Food history does not usually address questions within a broader conceptual framework. Histories of food in postwar Melbourne, Australia, have tended to follow this trend, evaluating the ‘quality’ of cuisine and fine dining alone. Examining a moment of internationalism in the 1956 Olympic Games allows the food cultures of postwar Melbourne to be considered within a broader conceptual framework — cosmopolitanism. Why did Melburnians link ‘continental’ migrant food cultures and sociability, hospitality and cultural diversity as the marker of their city’s cosmopolitanism?
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Further reading
Culinary Distinctions, special issue of Journal of Australian Studies, 87 (2006).
S. Downes, Advanced Australian Fare: How Australian Cooking Became the World’s Best (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2002).
C. Ripe, Goodbye Culinary Cringe (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1993).
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Luckins, T. (2007). Competing for Cultural Honours: Cosmopolitanism, Food, Drink and the Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956. In: Kirkby, D., Luckins, T. (eds) Dining on Turtles. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597303_6
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