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Australian Bush Superfoods
Australia's unique native ingredients boast nutritional and medicinal benefits that cannot be found anywhere else. From the Kakadu plum with its unmatched vitamin C content, to Bunya nuts that contain natural antibacterial properties, knowledge of these superfoods has been passed down in Aboriginal cultures for thousands of years.
This cookbook features Australia’s most interesting and beneficial bush superfoods, with beautiful illustrations and information on where they grow, traditional Indigenous uses, nutritional benefits, and advice on how to use them in your home kitchen. You can then follow an easy plant-based recipe, such as Sweet Potato Toast with Finger Lime Guacamole, or Spiced Apple and Riberry Chia Pudding, to enjoy the health benefits yourself!
No matter whether you live in the city or the outback, you too can discover the foods that nourished the first peoples of this land.
This cookbook features Australia’s most interesting and beneficial bush superfoods, with beautiful illustrations and information on where they grow, traditional Indigenous uses, nutritional benefits, and advice on how to use them in your home kitchen. You can then follow an easy plant-based recipe, such as Sweet Potato Toast with Finger Lime Guacamole, or Spiced Apple and Riberry Chia Pudding, to enjoy the health benefits yourself!
No matter whether you live in the city or the outback, you too can discover the foods that nourished the first peoples of this land.
192 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2017
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January 24, 2021
This is a beautiful book with interesting recipes featuring 40 Australian native superfoods.
However, while these plants did provide essential vitamins and minerals, the main foods that nourished the first peoples of this land were animal-based, and this is a vegan book. For a more accurate guide to indigenous nutrition I recommend "Bush Tukka Guide" by Samantha Martin, a descendant of the Kija and Jaru from the east Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Also many of the recipes feature almond milk, which is not a sustainable product. 80% of the world's almonds are produced in barren orchards in California where the only living plants are the almond trees. Bees for pollination have to be freighted in regularly (as they die of starvation). It is however possible to buy organic almond milk.
That said I love that so many of the recipes are gluten free and would like to try Rosella Jam Bakeless Lamingtons, perhaps with lillypilly jam. I'm also very keen to try Muntries which are described as having a sweet, spicy apple flavour and are indigenous to my state, Victoria (although a long way further west than me).
However, while these plants did provide essential vitamins and minerals, the main foods that nourished the first peoples of this land were animal-based, and this is a vegan book. For a more accurate guide to indigenous nutrition I recommend "Bush Tukka Guide" by Samantha Martin, a descendant of the Kija and Jaru from the east Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Also many of the recipes feature almond milk, which is not a sustainable product. 80% of the world's almonds are produced in barren orchards in California where the only living plants are the almond trees. Bees for pollination have to be freighted in regularly (as they die of starvation). It is however possible to buy organic almond milk.
That said I love that so many of the recipes are gluten free and would like to try Rosella Jam Bakeless Lamingtons, perhaps with lillypilly jam. I'm also very keen to try Muntries which are described as having a sweet, spicy apple flavour and are indigenous to my state, Victoria (although a long way further west than me).
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