“Book Descriptions: Vegemite is perhaps Australia’s most enduring cultural icon, but how did it come to be created?
Cyril Callister was a passionate scientist and innovator, and his story is inextricably bound up with that of Australia in the first half of the 20th century.
In the 1920s, Callister was employed by Fred Walker & Co to create a yeast extract, as imports of Marmite from the UK had been disrupted in the aftermath of World War I. He experimented with brewer's yeast and independently developed what would later be called Vegemite.
In The Man Who Invented Vegemite, Jamie Callister sets out to learn more about the grandfather he never met and, along the way, discovers that extraordinary things can happen to (almost) ordinary people.” DRIVE
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