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Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry (1916 - )

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The following entries are from the History of Australian Science and Technology Bibliography.

Books

  • Farrer, Keith, To Feed a Nation: a History of Australian Food Science and Technology, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, 2005, 230 pp. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, A Settlement Amply Supplied: Food Technology in Nineteenth Century Australia, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1980, 332 pp. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, Fancy Eating That!: a Closer Look at Food Additives and Contaminants, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, AIRG - the First Twenty Years, Australian Industrial Research Group, Melbourne, 1986. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, A Guide to Food Additives and Contaminants, The Parthenon Publishing Group Ltd., 1987. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, The Shipment of Edible Oils, IBC Technical Services Ltd., London, 1990. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, William Carey - Missionary and Botanist, Carey Baptist Grammar School, Melbourne, 2005. [ Details ]

Book Chapters

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'The Thermal Destruction of Vitamin B1 in Foods', in Advances in Food Research, vol. VI, 1955, pp. 257-311. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Callister, Cyril Percy (1893-1949), Food Technologist', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1979, pp. 527-528. (Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070531b.htm) [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Food and Food Exports', in Australians: an Historical Dictionary, Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, Sydney, 1987, pp. 156-157. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Food Technology', in R. T. Madigan (ed.), Technology in Australia 1788-1988: A Condensed History of Australian Technological Innovation and Adaptation During the First Two Hundred Years, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Melbourne, 1988. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Nutritional Implications', in R. G. Booth (ed.), Snack Foods, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1990, pp. 327-347. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Walker, Fred (1884-1935), Merchant and Industrialist', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 357-358. (Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120399b.htm) [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Wilson, David (1830?-1899), Dairy Expert', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 519-520. (Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120583b.htm) [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Food Canning in Australia', in Food Canning: an Introduction, 2nd edn, Canned Food Information Service Inc., Melbourne, 1991, pp. 2-3. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Processing: Safety, Acceptability, Nutrition', in G. G. Birch and G. Campbell-Platt (eds), Food Safety: the Challenge Ahead, Andover, Hants, Intercept Ltd., 1993, pp. 127-139. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'The Australian Food Industry - Achievements Since Settlement', in Catherine McKean (ed.), Australian Foods, AgriFood Media Pty Ltd., Melbourne, 1999, pp. 1-10. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Food Additives', in K. F. Kiple and K. C. Ornelas (eds), The Cambridge World History of Food, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 1667-1677. [ Details ]

Journal Articles

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Historical perspectives of food in Tasmania', Food Technology in Australia, Miles Sykes Memorial Lecture, Hobart 1971, vol. 24, 1972, pp. 116-131. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'C. P. Callister - a Pioneer of Australian Food Technology', Food Technology in Australia, vol. 25, 1973, pp. 52-65. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Australia's first canning period: 1845-1855', Food Technology in Australia, vol. 29, 1977, pp. 487-491. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Adulterations of all descriptions', Food Technology in Australia, FM Bird Memorial Lecture, Melbourne, 1979. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Who invented the Brine Bath? - the Isaac Solomon myth', Food Technology, vol. 33, no. 2, 1979, pp. 75-77. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Sizar Elliott: Technologist and Transient Tasmanian', Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Papers and Proceedings, vol. 31, no. 4, 1984, pp. 9-15. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Australian food science and technology: the decade of decision 1945-1955', Food Technology in Australia, vol. 39, 1987, pp. 22-23. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Background to the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology', Food Science and Technology Today, vol. 2, 1988, pp. 110-112. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Whence came the lead in Franklin's crewmen', Food Science and Technology Today, vol. 3, no. 2, 1989, pp. 93-94. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'The Australian Food Additives Committee, 1953-1963. 1: cutting the pattern with colours', Food Australia, vol. 42, no. 3, 1990, pp. 146-150. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'The Australian Food Additives Committee, 1953-1963. 2: there is so great diversity', Food Australia, vol. 42, no. 6, 1990, pp. 277-283. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'T.S. Mort - Food technologist?', Food Australia, vol. 44, 1992, pp. 119-123. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'The Rev Dr JI Bleasdale and the Medical Society of Victoria', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol. 86, 1993, pp. 166-198. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Lead in the last Franklin expedition', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 20, 1993, pp. 399-409. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Edwards patent preserved potatoes: Australian associations with a 19th Century maratime antiscorbutic', Food Australia, vol. 46, no. 12, 1994, pp. 549-551. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Fredrick Accum (1769-1838): consultant and food chemist', Food Science and Technology Today, vol. 10, no. 4, 1996, pp. 217-222. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Dr AH Hassall - and food technology', Food Science and Technology Today, vol. 11, 1997, pp. 81-87. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Australian frozen meat: anticipation in the 1860s', Food Australia, vol. 52, no. 11, 2000, pp. 512-513. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Goldner's preserved meat and the last Franklin expedition', Food Science and Technology Today, vol. 15, no. 1, 2000, pp. 20-24. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Food additives debate in Victoria 100 years ago', Food Australia, vol. 53, no. 6, 2001, pp. 217-219. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Australian food science 1: to 1940', Australian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, vol. 58, no. 4, 2001, pp. 246-248. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Australian food science 2: 1940-1970 - some personal reflections', Australian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, vol. 59, no. 1, 2002, pp. 52-54. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'An early Australian recognition of the rationale of canning', Food Australia, vol. 56, no. 11, 2004, pp. 518-519. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'A mid-Victorian food technologist', Food Australia, vol. 57, no. 5, 2005, pp. 174-176. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'Perceptions of Australian food exports in the late 19th century', Food Australia, vol. 58, no. 6, 2006, pp. 282-283. [ Details ]

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry and Diamond, E. M., 'Watering the fleet and introduction of distillation', The Mariner's Mirror, vol. 91, no. 4, 2005, pp. 548-553. [ Details ]

Reports

  • Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, Australian meat exports to Britain in the nineteenth centuary: technology push and market pull, Sir Robert Menzies Centre of Australian Studies, Workign Paper No. 28, London, 1988. [ Details ]

Reviews


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