

International visitors are joining Australians in a new appreciation of the “bush tucker” that has delighted our Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Described by one food writer as “like a painter finding a new palette of colours”, foods such as lilli-pillis, wattle seeds, Kakadu plums and bunya bunya nuts (wonderful in satay sauces) can be sampled at specialist restaurants throughout Australia. Tours that focus on this food are widely available.
You can also try kangaroo – a tasty lean meat, great to grill or barbecue – or even crocodile and emu meat.
Top row, left to right:
1 bush pomegranate;
2 beard heath;
3 green plum;
4 red apple (lilli-pilli);
5 black bean pod
Bottom row, left to right:
6 ruby saltbush;
7 conker berry;
8 white lilli-pilli;
9 native grapes;
10 white apple (lilli-pilli)