From SBS Food Deep-fried scorpion, silk worm pupae and wok-fried beetles – all excellent sources of protein. Ed Charles takes a look at Western food taboos and the people who break them. Cows are seen as a civilised food. Insects are not. It is a division that partly accounted for Australia’s first European settlers villifying the indigenous population for their enjoyment of strange foods and grubs. “Food intake was a very important part of situating people as not properly human,” […]

From The Australian, Entrepreneur ONE of the major challenges for small companies is to make the transition from being a small-volume product to being a brand sold in a large number of retailers. For Sydney-based Nikki Michel and Lisa Ross the challenge was to move from selling their dream Pickles and Loop pyjamas at Paddington Markets in 2005 to 120 specialist independent retail outlets today. In March last year the sisters, themselves nicknamed Pickles and Loop respectively, started by exhibiting […]

From SBS Food Chilli is an essential ingredient in many cuisines throughout the world, featuring in everything from from piping hot vindaloo to Portuguese piri piri sauce, but who started the fire? Ed Charles investigates. Christopher Columbus has a lot to answer for. He was the first European on record to find chillis, and now, together with the potato and the tomato, they are ubiquitous throughout the world, and for some reason prized for the burning sensation they produce. Historians […]