Australian Foods

Lamingtons

Vegemite Toast

Meat Pie

Pavlova

What exactly is Australian food?

While people eat fried rice, Thai curries, Chinese food and pizza those foods don’t belong to Australia. Australia is a multicultural country, with people from many countries. So there are also foods from different countries.

Fried Rice; brown rice with prawns, bacon, peas, potato

Pizza; ham, cheese and pineapple

Curry; rice, chicken, zucchini, capsicum, basil

Traditional Aboriginal Foods“Bush Tucker”

Before 1788, the Aboriginal people hunted animals and gathered plants and berries. Some traditional Aboriginal foods are;

InsectsWitchetty grubs. The larva of a moth. The taste is similar to scrambled eggs.

Honey Ants – underneath a Mulga tree, Aboriginal women find honey ants.

The nest can be a metre or two deep.

Bush Tucker – Plants and Seeds

Bush Tucker – Animals

The Colony - Pre Industrial Revolution 1840

The First Fleet brought seeds and animals such as sheep, cows and pigs to Australia in 1788. However many plants died as the climate was different from England. The Aboriginal people showed them local animals and plants.

Settlers ate native meats, sometimes baked in pies or pasties.

Bread or ‘damper’ was baked in the fire. Vegetables were native to Australia and brought from

England. Tea was the most important thing.

1840 - 1945

In the mid-1800s, Irish people came to Australia, to escape both the Potato Famine and religious persecution. They brought recipes for Irish stew.

Rabbits and coffee were taken to Australia, and new foods like sugar, granny smith apples, and Arnotts biscuits were made.

1945

After WWII many people moved to Australia. Australian people began to eat new foods like Mediterranean, Asian, Indian, and African.

Now Now in the 21st century Australian food is a mix of

different cultures. Some examples are; • Steak, vegetables and potatoes• Roast dinners• ‘Spag Bol’• Pizza• Curry• Fried Rice• Meat Pies• Fish and chips• Steak, sausages, kebabs (really anything) on the BBQ• Takeaway meals; Fast food, Italian, Thai, Chinese,

Japanese, French, Mexican, Indian, Greek and many more.

Uniquely Australian Vegemite Barbecues Tim Tams (all Arnotts biscuits) Macadamia nuts Weet-bix – a cereal Lamingtons BBQ’d snags, sausages Pavlova Fairy Bread Hamburgers with beetroot and pineapple