Indigenous eating customs in Australia

Indigenous eating customs in Australia0The Australian Asian indigenous people are one of the few fishing, hunting and gathering peoples in the world today. The diets of the indigenous people are very wide. Of course, the food of each tribe will vary according to local resources, but larger animals such as magpies and kangaroos are always the favorite foods of the people of each tribe. Therefore, the local people's skills in cooking animals are also the most unique.

Indigenous eating customs in Australia1Generally speaking, Australian indigenous people rarely eat raw fish or raw meat, but their methods of preparing food are simple. Because they do not have pottery or metal utensils, the people in the country have no idea how to cook food. They often simply roast meat and fish on fire or in hot rocks, ashes, or hot sand. A more sophisticated method is to stew it in a ground stove. People first opened the abdomen of the prey, emptied the internal organs, stuffed them into hot rocks, and then put the entire prey into the hot pit. Subsequently, the top of the pit was sealed tightly with fresh leaves and mud. Sometimes in order to generate more steam, people pour silk water into the stove pits from above them. Aboriginal people generally use this method to cook kangaroos. In some places, when people catch kangaroo tongues, they first peel off the tendons and skin on the tail and use them to sew clothes or make strings for throwing rocks and javelins. Then throw it whole into a hot upper pit. After the kangaroo is cooked, people lift it completely out of the pit, open its belly, and divide it up. If fish are caught, people put it on a soft rectangular piece of bark, roll it up, and use straw ropes to tie it, and then bury the whole package in hot sand or ash. The food made in this way contains a lot of water, is delicious, and has a clean appearance. The tree used to wrap the sitting turtle has now become a plate for holding food.

Indigenous eating customs in Australia2Birds are often thrown into the fire with their fur and roasted whole, or their internal organs are removed in advance and roasted. Because the residents of Shanghai believe that bird entrails are a delicacy and should be roasted separately. The more particular method is to coat the prey with a layer of mud and bury it with hot charcoal. After the prey is ripe, break the mud skin, so that the feathers attached to the mud skin will also fall off. The bird meat fired in this way is very delicious.

When people eat on the website in Australia, they use shells and each shell as dishes and utensils, and eat them with their hands. Finding water in arid central Australia is not easy. In this regard, indigenous people in Australia have shown a high degree of wisdom and understanding of their living environment.

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