Italian descendants in Home Hill, QLD gather in a community cooking group to learn, experiment, re-live great tastes from old family recipes and savour them for younger generations.
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Sugarcane is King in this part of the world it’s the reason the town of Home Hill exists a community that grew up around a sugar cane Mill those who came to cut the cane were mostly Italian beginning a legacy that continues to this day so how did your family get to be here
Alfie well Dad migrated from Italy in 1930 middle of the depression and he was he came here to home Hill on the 17th of February 1935 cut camee and then he grew tomatoes made a lot of money in 1946 so he bought this shop it was called the Pacific fish bar which is
Just here and kept us all busy for another bloody 60 years our shop was the center for all the Italian migrants and uh pop used to sell 12 ton of spaghetti a year unbel it’s h Man Alfie michi’s father’s shop is no more but in its day it provided A Taste of Home for the newly landed cane Cutters as well as employing the whole Moi family desle my wife when she we got married she worked in the business and uh we were a family business and we we
Did well never made any money but we made a lot of friends I mean groceries are groceries corn flakes are corn flakes everywhere but we’re specialized in so many things that people came to want Friday nights we used to have the people used to come for the
Entertainment cu the shop was full of people unbelievable do you think home Hill has changed a lot since you were married and you were working together she had nothing left of it it’s so sad this town you would not believe FR well every night the people used to come to town
Just to park in Center Park and they’d bring their flash new cars especially the Italians and the buggers wouldn’t go [Laughter] home well the shop is no more but you two are still going strong oh yeah she’s a we we have a good marriage mainly because I’m very understanding desley would you agree
Most of the time we we understand each other she’s my best Friend Alfie’s father brought with him a passion for food and Italian cooking and passed on those skills to alie’s Australian wife desle and she’s still passing them on as well as learning new ones in a monthly cooking group sometimes four of us and sometimes 10 of us just depends who can come on
The day and what we’re making well some of them are recipes that our grandmothers had and if they’re not passed on to the future generation those recipes are going to die with them so we have to pass our knowledge on to younger people to learn how to do
It I learned from my nana my nana would always make canalies at all our big events and then now I can do it myself so you learning Lots yes we learn from each other and there was a lot of recipes that I would never have tried on
My own if we hadn’t made them in a group we’ve done French we’ve done Greek Indian um Indian when you’re trying new things do you ever have any flops we do and that’s why the groups call pandemonium because sometimes it is what about when we were over here and Vicki was making what was she making and she lifted the mix up and she lift up
The kitchen I mix her up and the batter went all up onto the ceiling it went everywhere on the roof everywhere everywhere on the cabs on the roof on the [Laughter] floor