Can we be Australian without eating indigenous food?
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
American food historian Waverley Root once wrote:
food is a function of the soil, for which reason every country has the food naturally fit for it.
Every country, that is, except Australia.
By Australian food we mean the plants, fruits and animals that have grown here and sustained the indigenous people of the land for over 50,000 years. If we eat...