‘Intoxicating: Ten drinks that shaped Australia’ - Countdown to launch: first chapter

Today the countdown begins to the launch of my new book, ‘Intoxicating: Ten drinks that shaped Australia’. The book hits shops from this week, but I’ve decided to ‘iso-launch’ it – i.e., open a nice bottle of bubbly at home and pat myself on the back – on July 24. The first chapter is: ‘Way-a-linah’, the name of a drink enjoyed by Aboriginal people, made from the fermented sap of the cider gum tree found in Tasmania’s high country. I took this picture on the edge of a boggy frost plain near Miena in the Central Highlands: you can see the sap trickling down the bark. The chapter tells the story of way-a-linah and other Aboriginal drinks, and asks why we don’t know more about this aspect of our history. #IntoxicatingTenDrinks