Welcome
to cooking.com.au
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Focused
on finding and sharing information about cooking! |
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List recipes with cooking.com.au
and share your cooking experiences. The recipe section
of our web site is currently unavailable for public
listings while categories and structure are still
being developed. |
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| Signature
Dishes |
| List and share your signature dish
with cooking.com.au |
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Our bodies require certain vitamins
and minerals to function properly and stay healthy.
To view what minerals and vitamins are in our food,
please visit our vitamins and minerals page. |
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Cuisine
& Culture |
Australian culture
has been forged around cuisine of all nations. It
all started about 40,000 to 60,000 years or so ago.
Aboriginal people had a very unique culture and they
feasted on some very tasty foods. Their dream time
stories told around camp fires, are thankfully still
alive and with us today. |
The next people
to live in Australia were the english accompanied
by convicts from English and Welsh backgrounds ( 70%
English, 24% Irish. 5% Scottish )
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 165,000 convicts
were transported to the various Australian penal colonies
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What
food did the convicts eat?
Male convicts were allowed a ration of meat per day
(1lb of salt pork, beef or mutton) and 1 to 2lb per
day of flour or cornmeal to make damper. If they were
lucky the meat they received would be fresh but it
was usually far from it. The convicts were also supplied
with some tea and sugar and usually managed to buy
tobacco and rum. Female convicts were given two-thirds
of what the male convicts received.
The convicts didn't receive any fresh fruit or vegetables,
but those convicts who were lucky enough to receive
a good posting were allowed to grow their fruit and
vegetables on a small plot of land. |
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Innovation and creation of Australian
cuisine
These days Australia is the second
most multicultural nation in the world,
tied with Switzerland behind table-leader
Luxembourg.
In the 2011 Census, Australians reported
around 300 different ancestries. To
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Cooking |
Australia really is the lucky country when it comes
to food.
Our creativity in cooking mixed with an incredibly wide
variety of exciting fresh local produce, have become
the envy of the world. |
To be continued ... |
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Our news page. |
Our focus is finding
and sharing information about cooking. ( the people,
the food, industries and technologies ) |
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Who's
Cooking |
Looking at who's cooking in your region.
List your restaurant, cafe or takeaway outlet and let
the public discover your cook and / or your cooking
experience. ( with reviews ) |
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Wine |
| Australian wine is know all over the
world, we have established a reputation for quality
wine. |
To be continued
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Farmers
& Produce |
Australian farmers
produce almost 93 percent of Australia's daily domestic
food supply. Each Australian farmer produces enough
food to feed 600 people, 150 at home and 450 overseas. |
There are approximately
135,997 farm businesses in Australia, 99 percent of
which are family owned and operated. Australian farmers
own, manage and care for 61 percent of the Australian
land mass. |
As of 2010-11, there
are 307,000 people employed in Australian agriculture.
The complete agricultural supply chain, including
the affiliated food and fibre industries, provide
over 1.6 million jobs to the Australian economy. |
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Quality
Meats |
Our meat section. |
| Our focus is finding and sharing information about
meat. |
To be continued ... |
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Spring
and Mineral waters |
| Water for the soul, refresh your inner being. |
To be continued ... |
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References |
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Australia second most multicultural
country - ABC
News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |
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