3. 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.
4. Fried Rice; brown rice with
prawns, bacon, peas, potato
Pizza; ham, cheese and
pineapple
Curry; rice, chicken, zucchini, capsicum, basil
5. Traditional Aboriginal Foods
“Bush Tucker”
Before 1788, the Aboriginal people hunted animals and gathered
plants and berries. Some traditional Aboriginal foods are;
Insects
Witchetty 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 1945
After WWII many people moved to Australia. Australian
people began to eat new foods like Mediterranean,
Asian, Indian, and African.
11. 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.
12. 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