Bush tucker, also called bush food, is any food native to Australia and historically eaten by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but it can also describe any native flora, fauna, or funga used for culinary or medicinal purposes, regardless of the continent or culture. Animal native foods include kangaroo, emu, witchetty grubs and crocodile, and plant foods include fruits such as quandong, kutjera, spices such as lemon myrtle and vegetables such as warrigal greens and various native yams.
Traditional Indigenous Australians' use of bushfoods has been severely affected by the settlement of Australia in 1788 and subsequent settlement by non-Indigenous peoples. The introduction of non-native foods, together with the loss of traditional lands, resulting in reduced access to native foods by Aboriginal people, and destruction of native habitat for agriculture, has accentuated the reduction in use.
Since the 1970s, there has been recognition of the nutritional and gourmet value of native foods by non-Indigenous Australians, and the bushfood industry has grown enormously. Kangaroo meat has been available in supermarkets since the 1980s, and many other foods are sold in restaurants or packaged as gourmet foods, which has led to expansion of commercial cultivation of native food crops.
Bushtucker, also called bush food, is any food native to Australia and historically eaten by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
"The BushTucker Man" is a retired Australian Army soldier and war veteran who is best known for his love and knowledge of the Australian bush. Hiddins...
honey species. Tasmania also has a number of native edibles, known as bushtucker in Australia. These plants were foraged by the Tasmanian Aboriginals...
utilising natural resources for survival, mainly with bushtucker and the spiritual healing of bush medicine. For more than a century after the first British...
Coastal Saltmarsh Plants in Victoria, South Gippsland Conservation Society, Inverloch. ISBN 9780959205008 "TuckerBush: Boobialla". Retrieved 31 May 2018....
Griffith in the medical drama Good Sam (2022). Bush has also appeared in films, including John Tucker Must Die (2006), The Hitcher (2007), The Narrows...
many Aboriginal paintings. Australia portal Food portal Huhu beetle Bushtucker "CSIRO - Witjuti grub". Archived from the original on 28 July 2016. Retrieved...
interviewed then-Governor George W. Bush for Talk magazine. He quoted Bush mocking Karla Faye Tucker, who was executed in Bush's state of Texas, and frequently...
Territory, to Queensland. Its tubers provide a form of bushtucker to some Aboriginal peoples, known as bush potato, or (to the Ngururrpa groups in WA), karnti...
moth is commonly known as the "witchetty grub", and is widely used as bushtucker by Indigenous Australians. The caterpillars of the species live in tunnels...
totemic relationships, and part of the Ngiṉṯaka dreaming, as well as bushtucker. It was a favoured food item among desert Aboriginal tribes, and the...
are used as food, and sustaining plants which can be used for food (bushtucker), bush medicine, tools, shelter, and clothing. They may also be of cultural...
bushcraft was popularized in the Southern Hemisphere by Les Hiddins (the BushTucker Man) as well as in the Northern Hemisphere by Mors Kochanski and more...
significant bush food for the Aboriginal people of Australia, the food is often depicted in current Aboriginal art, especially paintings about 'bushtucker', as...
Look up Tucker or tucker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tucker may refer to: Tucker, Arkansas Tucker, Georgia Tucker, Mississippi Tucker, Missouri...
democracy – report". Michael West. Retrieved 7 February 2024. "BushTucker Plants, or Bush Food". Teachers.ash.org.au. Archived from the original on 11...
disperse seeds. Acacias seeds, roots, and gum are types of aboriginal bushtucker that very nutritious food sources that have unique tastes and provide...
samphire on sea cliffs. Aboriginal Australians have long used samphire as bushtucker, due to its abundance, flavour, and nutritional value. It is high in...
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in the bottom two in the public voting and taking part in a play-off bushtucker eating trial with Brian Paddick.[citation needed] With producers Nigel...
facilities on board. "Tucker box" was a model of domestic chest freezer built in Australia under the Whirlpool brand name. Bushtucker W. S. Ramson, ed. (1988)...
adventure genre, which included the travels of the Leyland brothers, The BushTucker Man, Malcolm Douglas, Steve Irwin, Ben Cropp, Harry Butler and Alby Mangels...
2015. Retrieved 18 November 2014. "Nullabor Net". Quondong - Australian BushTucker. Jan Selling (2008): Så länge skutan kan gå, p.120 (in Swedish) Camilla...
listed among the world's best. Bushtucker refers to a wide variety of plant and animal foods native to the Australian bush: bush fruits such as kakadu plums...
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