Rolling Up Their Sleeves - the Barossa Cookery Book

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The Barossa Cookery Book is one of Australia's most iconic community books. First published in 1917 as a war fundraiser, much enlarged in 1932 and still in print almost 100 years later, The Barossa Cookery Book has been the mainstay of kitchens throughout rural South-East Australia.

After a number of years of painstaking research, Those Barossa Girls (Marieka Ashmore and Sherlee Menz) have written a beautiful biography and companion to The Barossa Cookery Book presenting a selection of iconic recipes in a modern format, and telling the stories of the community of women who contributed their recipes, seasonal, frugal and celebratory to this Australian culinary icon.

We are very excited to be hosting the Melbourne launch for this significant book on Australia's rural culinary history.

If you already own a copy of The Barossa Cookery Book, you will love this companion, but if you have never explored a historic cookbook, then you are in for a rare treat.

Please join us on Tuesday 25th March to hear from the authors and to be inspired by the experience, knowledge and resourcefulness of these traditional recipes and the women behind them. As always there will be tastes from the book(s).

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FAQs

I can't attend an event, can I buy/pre-order a signed copy of the book?

Yes. Copies will be available for signing and purchase on the night. If you can't attend, we can organise to post signed and personalised copies to you.

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?

If you haven't been to one of our events for a while, please note we have moved to the northern side of the Queen Victoria Market. Our new address is 115-121 Victoria Street (next to A Shed)

The 19, 20, 57 (Elizabeth St)and 55 (William & Peel St) trams go past the Queen Victoria Market and run frequently. We are in the Free Tram Zone and are a short 50m walk from the Elizabeth St Queen Victoria Market stop and the Peel St Queen Victoria Market stop. Melbourne Central and Flagstaff railway stations are two blocks away.

If driving, there is plenty of metered parking on Queen St near the corner of Victoria St. There is also limited parking on Victoria Street outside the store.