Michael Symons (Author)
Michael Symons (author)
Michael Symons (born Adelaide, 1945) is an Australian journalist, restaurateur, writer and independent scholar. He pursues gastronomy as the “diner’s sense of the world”.[1] His book *One Continuous Picnic* is the definitive history of gastronomy in Australia.
Career
With a B.Sc. from the University of Sydney, Symons specialised in popular culture and environmental journalism at the *Sydney Morning Herald* (1967-1973). After brief careers as a ministerial media secretary, radio producer, and opening the Cantina di Toia restaurant near Florence in Italy, he ran the Uraidla Aristologist restaurant with Jennifer Hillier in the Adelaide Hills (1981-1994).[2]
Inspired by the contrast with Tuscan eating, he published the gastronomic history of Australia, *One Continuous Picnic* (1982), instigated the Symposiums of Australian Gastronomy in 1984, and undertook a Ph.D. in the “sociology of cuisine” (awarded Flinders University, 1992). These experiences informed *The Shared Table: Ideas for Australian Cuisine* (1993). Under the working-title “Cooks Made Us,” he wrote *The Pudding that Took a Thousand Cooks* (1998), republished in Britain and the U.S. as *A History of Cooks and Cooking*. After seven years in Wellington (New Zealand), instigating symposiums and researching cookery books with Professor Helen Leach, Symons reappraised liberal theory in *Meals Matter: A Radical Economics through Gastronomy* (2020). Symons is married to Professor Marion Maddox.
Bibliography
- One Continuous Picnic: A History of Eating in Australia*. Adelaide: Duck Press. 1982. ISBN 0959304703 Search this book on
.. - The Shared Table: Ideas for Australian Cuisine*. Canberra: AGPS [commissioned by the Office of Multicultural Affairs]. 1993. ISBN 0644135867 Search this book on . 9780644135863.
- The Pudding that Took a Thousand Cooks: The Story of Cooking in Civilisation and Daily Life*. Ringwood, Victoria: Viking. 1998. ISBN 0670877409 Search this book on ..
- A History of Cooks and Cooking*. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2000. ISBN 0252025806 Search this book on . [new edition of *The Pudding that Took a Thousand Cooks*].
- One Continuous Picnic: A Gastronomic History of Australia*, second, expanded edition. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2007. ISBN 9780522853230 Search this book on ..
- Meals Matter: A Radical Economics through Gastronomy*. New York: Columbia University Press. 2020. ISBN 9780231196024 Search this book on . (cloth) 9780231551601 (ebook).
External links www.mealsmatter.net (Symons’ blog)
References
1: Michael Symons, *Meals Matter: A Radical Economics through Gastronomy*, 2020, page xiii 2: Penelope Debelle, “I eat, therefore I am (Profile: Michael Symons)”, *Sydney Morning Herald*, Saturday, 31 October 1998
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