Dr Alison Vincent is a cultural historian with a background in Australian colonial history and food technology.
Her on-going research focuses on the social history of dining out, the history of cookbooks and of writing about food in Australia. Some of the results of her research have been published in the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, Proceedings of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, TEXT (Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs), Lilith: A Feminist History Journal and The Journal of Australian Studies.