Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales

Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales

Bush Food

Aboriginal Food and Herbal Medicine

$54.99
ISBN
9781864368161
More Information
By Jennifer Isaacs
Format Paperback / softback
Page Extent 256
Book Size 296 x 211 x 15 mm (H x W x D)
Imprint New Holland Publishers
Release Date 1 Aug 2002
Subject Classification Cookery / food & drink etc / National & regional cuisine

For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal people have lived, and lived well, in Australia. They have developed a unique knowledge of native plants and a deep understanding of the value of many animal products. Bush Food is an exploration of these traditional skills and a compendium of the kinds of foods eaten by Aborigines. It indicates how food is caught or gathered, hunted or picked, how it is prepared and cooked, and what nutritional value it has. It considers, too, the use of natural products in traditional Aboriginal herbal medicine.

Jennifer Isaacs AM

Jennifer Isaacs is a prominent Australian writer, art consultant and independent curator. A pioneer in moves to gain respect for Aboriginal culture, she is the author of seminal books on Aboriginal art, religion, plant use, food, medicine and oral history. In 2003 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of her work promoting Aboriginal culture and assisting Aboriginal artists.