This presentation is specifically about how chefs are using Australian ingredients in restaurants both in Australian and overseas as well as some of the promotional and marketing activities.

1. Indulging in Native Australian Foods Mitchell Library, Sydney, Australia 19 th April, 2007

2. What are Native Australian Foods?

3. Once only sustenance for Aboriginal people

4. Isn't ‘bush tucker’ or ‘bush food’

5. Australian Native Food industry has evolved since The Bush Tucker Man

6. Adapted from wild harvest to commercially grown and harvested

7. Cooking with Native Australian Foods

12. Educating Chefs around the world

13. “ It’s like Australian herbs and spices have been kept in a secret cupboard for centuries and we just found them” Michael Colomanco Chef & Host of The Good Food Show New York

16. Australian Menu Planning Guide

18. Chef and Restaurant Kit

20. Educating the wider public

22. Dining Downunder

23. Dining Downunder Cookbook

30. The Future for Native Australian Foods

37. Questions?