The Art of Living in Australia

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Excerpt from The Art of Living in Australia: Together With Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken, Lecturer on Cookery to the Technical College, SydneyAlthough this work fully deals with all the many matters connected with the art of living in Australia, its principal object 18 the attempt to bring about some improvement in the extraordinary food habits at present in vogue. For years past the fact that our people live in direct opposition to their semi-tropical environment has been constantly before me. As it will be found in the opening portion of the chapter on School Cookery, the consumption of butcher's meat and of tea is enormously in excess of any common sense requirements, and is paralleled nowhere else in the world. On the other hand, there has been no real attempt to develop our deep-sea fisheries, market gardening is deplorably neglected, only a few of the more ordinary varieties being cultivated, salads, which are easily within the daily reach of every home, are conspicuous by their absence, and Australian wine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.