What Food Did Immigrants Bring To Australia
. In fact Genet loves cabbage so much that she is sharing an Ethiopian recipe for cabbage curry for the 2020 Feast for Freedom. Jan 1 1860 Asian Influence on Australian Cusine part 3.
When British migrated to Australia in 1786. Genets new Australian food favourites include strawberries blueberries pumpkin and cabbage. By 1949 over 50000 immigrants arrived from European cities to Australia.
The staple food of the early goldfields was mutton stew and damper.
Native foods of the Maori Kumara sweet potato taro and yam hue gourds aruhe fernroot raupo bullrush hinau karaka tawa tutu other berries mataik totara kahikatera rimu ti cabbage tree mamaku tree fern nikau palm puha sow thistle poikpiko. Among their everyday cuisine were beans corn tomatoes potatoes squash and even maple syrup. Most of these immigrants were British but many prospectors from the United States Germany Poland and China also settled in NSW and Victoria. At a time when Australian agriculture was expanding to embrace new crops and cuisines like rice and pineapple Slavic migrants brought innovative food production methods.
