Australian Foodways

National

⚠ TWO FOOD HISTORIES OF WILDLY UNEQUAL LENGTH ON ONE CONTINENT, and the longer one came first by about sixty-four thousand years. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have eaten from this land for at least 65,000 years — the oldest continuous food culture known — and are recorded in this corpus as ROOTS in their own right, not as a chapter of this row. What THIS row describes is the settler and immigrant cuisine of the last two and a bit centuries: British at its base, transformed after 1945 by Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Turkish, Yugoslav, Maltese and Dutch migration, then from the 1970s by Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian, Lao and Thai arrivals, and since by Indian, Nepali, Sudanese, Afghan and Filipino communities. The result is genuinely one of the world’s more plural everyday cuisines. The staples: lamb and beef, wheat, dairy, seafood, stone fruit and citrus, wine, and an enormous coffee culture. ⚠ AND ONE CORRECTION THE SPECIFICATION ASKED FOR: there is no such thing as Australian maple. No maple-syrup industry exists here and no entity for one is created.

What is recorded

Australian settler and immigrant cuisine is recorded as British at its base and transformed by post-1945 Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Turkish, Yugoslav, Maltese and Dutch migration, then from the 1970s by Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian, Lao and Thai arrival, and subsequently by Indian, Nepali, Sudanese, Afghan and Filipino communities. No maple syrup industry exists in Australia and no entity for one is created in this corpus. documented

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

part of Australian Dishes and Everyday Food documented

part of Australian Native Foods documented

part of Australian Regional Foodways documented

part of Migrant Foodways in Australia documented

related to Aboriginal Australian Foodways documented

⚠ A ROOT, NOT A SUBSECTION. At least 65,000 years against about 240; filing the older beneath the newer would invert the history.

related to Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and New Caledonia documented

⚠ "Blackbirding" — the coerced recruitment of Solomon Islanders to Queensland cane fields — is why there is an Australian South Sea Islander population.