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Notes

  • Dedication: To beloved friends, named and unnamed; may we enjoy lots more eating and drinking and talking.
  • Epigraph from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

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    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2004 .
      Extent: 275p.
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      • Includes bibliography and index.
      ISBN: 1741143128
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Australian Author Marion Halligan – Word Artist Robyn Greaves , 2014 single work biography
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 6 no. 2 2014;
Mythologizing Food : Marion Halligan’s Non-Fiction Ulla Rahbek , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 5 2011; This paper discusses Marion Halligan's non-fiction, particularly her writing on food: Those Women who go to Hotels, Eat my Words, Cockles of the Heart, Out of the Picture, and The Taste of Memory. The focus is on how Halligan deconstructs and reconstruct a mythology of food, in a Barthesian sense, revealing the contradictions at the heart of food mythology. The texts lay bare Halligan's own personal and at times idiosyncratic mythology of food, where food is much more that just that. Venturing into areas of autobiography, memory, travel, place and gardens, this paper discusses how Halligan's mythologizing of food doubles up, especially in her most recent food writing, as a rethinking and celebration of suburbia, which is figured as a site where nature and culture meet, and where paradise can be regained.
Halligan’s Love Affair with Food Anne Holden Rønning , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 5 2011; 'Marion Halligan's non-fiction Eat My Words, (1990), Cockles of the Heart (1996) and The Taste of Memory (2004) all have food as their main topic. Travelling round Europe on culinary journeys and staying in hotels and flats she provides us, as readers, with a wealth of recipes and reflections on the role food plays in people's lives, socially and culturally. This article will discuss some few of the points Halligan raises as she comments on the pleasure of food; on bricolage, both in the finished product and in cookery books; and the language we use to describe food and its processes. Adopting a bicultural approach Halligan compares Australian foods of today with those of her childhood, thus turning these food books into a kind of autobiography.' (Publisher's abstract)
Writing Food Writing Fiction Writing Life : Marion Halligan's Memoirs Dorothy Jones , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting 2010; (p. 168-186)
Journeys and Pilgrimages : Marion Halligan's Fiction Dorothy Jones , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 19-23)
Emotions Hidden Under Coconut Icing Alistair Jones , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28-29 August 2004; (p. 12)
— Review of The Taste of Memory Marion Halligan , 2004 single work prose
Into Contentment and Confrontation Brenda Niall , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 September 2004; (p. 5)
— Review of The Taste of Memory Marion Halligan , 2004 single work prose
Epicurean's Memories a Tasty Morsel of Good Things Gillian Vale , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 September 2004; (p. 16)
— Review of The Taste of Memory Marion Halligan , 2004 single work prose
Old-Fashioned Taste of Food by Association Alan Saunders , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 September 2004; (p. 11)
— Review of The Taste of Memory Marion Halligan , 2004 single work prose
The Tang of Bliss Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 264 2004; (p. 41)
— Review of The Taste of Memory Marion Halligan , 2004 single work prose
Luminous Moments in a Blustery Afternoon Graham Cooke , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 July 2004; (p. 2)
A Taste for Life Christopher Bantick , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 September 2004; (p. 15)
Reader's Digestive a Matter of Taste Jane Sullivan , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 24 October 2004; (p. 31)
'A Language We All Speak' : Food in Marion Halligan's Writing Dorothy Jones , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 28 no. 2 2006; (p. 162-171)

'Marion Halligan describes her memoir, A Taste of Memory, as a set of stories of her life in food, travel and especially gardens, those 'nourishing spaces'; but it also commemorates her husband, Graham, and their thirty-five year marriage. Food and gardens often appear as related themes in Halligan's fiction, where gardens symbolise suburban domestic space and food may be used to express both desire and social connection. This essay explores how, in A Taste of Memory and the two novels immediately preceding it, The Fog Garden and The Point, food and gardens are linked to themes of bereavement and loss.' - Kunapipi (p. 183).
Journeys and Pilgrimages : Marion Halligan's Fiction Dorothy Jones , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 19-23)
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