Open AccessPhillip's Table: Food in the early Sydney settlement
Author(s) -
Jacqui Newling
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
sydney journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1835-0151
DOI - 10.5130/sj.v5i1.5730
Subject(s) - settlement (finance) , extant taxon , indigenous , government (linguistics) , table (database) , food studies , geography , history , sociology , media studies , anthropology , business , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , finance , evolutionary biology , computer science , data mining , payment , biology
Using food as a lens, this essay looks at what we can discover about Sydney's early settlement from a gastronomic perspective, and what Phillip's table reveals about life at Government House.
With few explicit or descriptive references to meals at Government House or in Phillip's company, there are myriad clues in extant journals and information in primary sources about the food available to the colonists and the cross-cultural exchanges involving food between indigenous Australians and settlers.