Wednesday, February 29, 2012

NT: Aboriginal ingredients meet western cooking


AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-2007
NT: Aboriginal ingredients meet western cooking

By Tara Ravens

DARWIN, Feb 22 AAP - Imagine a backyard stocked with every delicacy you could imagine.

No shops, no queuing, no checkout chicks. Just aisles of tall trees packed with bush
berries and witchetty grubs.

Across Northern Australia - from Arnhem Land to the Red Centre - the larder is always
full for Aboriginal Australians.

Learning from locals, celebrity chef Steve Sunk has foraged through this outdoor pantry,
applying western styles of cooking to the most unlikely of ingredients.

The end result is the book …