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    We are what we ate: inside the new exhibition celebrating the history of food in WA

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    By Max Veenhuyzen

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    We are what we ate: inside the new exhibition celebrating the history of food in WA

    Remember when taking train journeys meant getting fed along the way? Or when Mounts Bay Road at the foot of King’s Park was planted to market gardens?

    And do you remember, like the famous ad from homegrown fast food success Red Rooster goes, Aussie Sundays? When the chook, was worth the wait?

    Put simply, do you remember the foods, restaurants and people – prior to the advent of smartphones, social media and viral TikTok trends – that helped feed, grow and, in many ways, define Western Australia?

    A Recipe For Life: The Food That Shapes Us – a new State Library of Western Australia exhibition that opens this weekend – is a deep-dive into the diverse, surprising and, at times, unusual food history of Western Australia.

    Compiled using materials retrieved from the library’s Aladdin’s Cave of menus, photos, books and other printed materials, it offers a snapshot of the past 60,000 years, as seen through the lens of how and what we eat.

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