The books that feed Australia

What makes a great Australian book? If your criteria include books that inspire, inform and instruct, then surely some of your flour-dusted, oil-stained cookbooks would be among the greatest. In this episode, we meet a woman who, during her 50 years in the Australian Women's Weekly Test Kitchen, witnessed several revolutions in Australian cookbook publishing, including the publication of The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book. And we ask a food writer with a huge online following, 'Do cookbooks still matter?'

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Guests: 

• Pamela Clark, former food editor at the Australian Women's Weekly, co-author of The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book
• Julia Busuttil Nishimura, founder of the food website Ostro and author of several cookbooks, including Simple Pleasures

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This episode of Every Bite was produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.