Australia

Ask what Australia eats and the answer starts with this: multicultural barbecue nation of meat pies, fresh seafood, bush tucker and world-class coffee. Look for Meat Pie (flaky hand-held pie of minced beef and gravy, doused with tomato sauce), Vegemite on Toast (buttered toast scraped with salty yeast-extract spread, childhood breakfast icon) and Pavlova (crisp-shelled marshmallow meringue with cream and passionfruit, Christmas centrepiece). Hand-held pies came with British settlers; Four’N Twenty, launched at Bendigo in 1947, industrialised them into the football-ground standard. This atlas has 38 Australia dishes catalogued below, from everyday cooking to food kept for festivals and special occasions.