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Culinary Archive Podcast

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Culinary Archive Podcast

Join food journalist Lee Tran Lam to explore Australia’s foodways. Leading Australian food producers, creatives and innovators reveal the complex stories behind ingredients found in contemporary kitchens across Australia – Milk, Eel, Honey, Mushrooms, Wine and Seaweed.

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Season 2

A close up of melted Neapolitan ice cream with a glace cherry in the centre.

Milk

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 2, Episode 1

Close up of soy glazed eel. There are bits of cooked rice in the top left of the image and sporadically down the left side.

Eel

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 2, Episode 2

Honeycomb and a bee.

Honey

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 2, Episode 3

Shitake Mushrooms in a bag.

Mushrooms

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 2, Episode 4

Season 1

A plate of unchecked oysters with a slice of lemon on a white plate in a fridge.

Oysters

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 1

The middle shelves of an open fridge. On the lower shelf is a plate of oysters, a red can of Resch’s beer, two yellow Bonsoy long-life milk cartons, turned on their side. In front of them is a iced latte, in a clear plastic takeaway cup. On the shelf above are two more iced coffees, both in takeaway cups. To their left a red and green Fountain Tomato Sauce bottle lies on its sides. Slightly behind them and to the right is a carton of Oak Iced Coffee. Sitting on top of that is an almost empty bread bag. In front of the bread bag is a round sponge cake with pink icing and a cherry on top. A large slice has been cut from the right side of the cake.

Grains

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 2

A jar of Vegemite sits on a fridge shelf. Behind it is a six pack of Resch’s beer.

Beer + Vegemite

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 3

Coffee

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 4

The vegetable drawer of a fridge is slightly open. The drawer is full of red and yellow tomatoes.

Tomatoes

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 5

A small grey bowl filled with edamame beans sits on a middle fridge shelf. There is a red Resch’s beer can and a yellow Bonsoy carton behind it.

Soybeans

Culinary Archive Podcast – Season 1, Episode 6

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