Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Preface
- Foreword By John Lucas
- Prologue
- To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- At Sea with Mrs Meredith
- What Mr Meredith asked the Ship's Owner about Dick
- Mrs Meredith looks about her
- Mrs Meredith and Hobart Culture
- Mrs Meredith and Hunting
- Flora and Fossil
- Mrs Meredith goes a-Gypsying and enjoys a Barbecue
- The Merediths attend a Ceremony
- Mrs Meredith speaks of the Good Old Days of Privatisation …
- You Rambling Boys of Liverpool
- The Call of the Genes
- Dear Mrs Meredith
- Dear Mr Simpson
- On the Right Side of the Earth
- Epilogue
- Melbourne Central Cemetery
- Select Bibliography
Mrs Meredith goes a-Gypsying and enjoys a Barbecue
from To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Preface
- Foreword By John Lucas
- Prologue
- To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- At Sea with Mrs Meredith
- What Mr Meredith asked the Ship's Owner about Dick
- Mrs Meredith looks about her
- Mrs Meredith and Hobart Culture
- Mrs Meredith and Hunting
- Flora and Fossil
- Mrs Meredith goes a-Gypsying and enjoys a Barbecue
- The Merediths attend a Ceremony
- Mrs Meredith speaks of the Good Old Days of Privatisation …
- You Rambling Boys of Liverpool
- The Call of the Genes
- Dear Mrs Meredith
- Dear Mr Simpson
- On the Right Side of the Earth
- Epilogue
- Melbourne Central Cemetery
- Select Bibliography
Summary
Let me expound the mystery
of ‘sticker-up’ cookery.
First slice your kangaroo
cutlets, three or two
inch broad, one third thick.
Next cut a stick
that's four feet long,
making sure it's clean and strong.
Spit your cutlets on —
which end? — the narrower one!
Now here's the trick! Thread
upon its sharpened head
some delicately rosy bacon.
Thrust your stake in
to leeward of the fire.
Soon will start a choir
of frizzle, splutter, steam.
Just you see the bacon gleam!
As the bacon softens, watch
a lubricating shower of rich
and savoury tears downflow
to the leaner kangaroo below.
‘And gentlemen,’ as gay
old Mr Hardcastle would say
if he were dining in the great outdoor
‘there is really nothing more
enticing to a hungry man at least
than being in attendance at this kind of feast.
There are times I feel my poor heart breaking
for stuck-up kangaroo and bacon!’
Though to be fair,
kangaroo's a lot like hare.
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- Cutting the Clouds Towards , pp. 13Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999