Essay On Italian Cuisine

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For over 40,000 years, Australia’s cuisine was originated from its indigenous foods and indigenous people leading a wandering lifestyle as hunters moving fro place-to-place and finding food as they travelled.

For more than two hundred years, influences from countries and cultures around the world have broadened the cuisine of Australia. Our contemporary Australian cuisine reflects the diversity influences and embraces a wide range of new foods, tastes and products.

During the mid – 1800s, many British and Chinese people came to Australia to make their fortune at the goldfields in Bathurst, Bendigo and Ballarat. After the Second World War, the government policy was to increase the population with a subsidized migration scheme to allow foreign individuals to work in Australia. Many people that migrated to Australia during this time from Britain, Italy and Greece brought with it an influence of the culture, customs and food patterns.

Migration form Asian countries such as Vietnam and Cambodia increased during the 1970’s, and this also had a significant impact of the foods and cuisines eaten in Australia.
As Australia is a multicultural country, the different food patterns are increasingly expanding in our food stores, markets and restaurants (http://www.oup.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/158722/efood2_Chapter6.pdf, Date accessed 3rd of May 2014)

The Italian cuisine, in particular, is influencing Australians nutritional health and wellbeing negatively if frequently consumed in the Australian diet. As parents are working more hours, extra jobs and weekend work, all these influences are impacting Australian family life, while one quarter of our children are overweight or obese, according to the latest Australian Social Trend...

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...e been rising for a number of reason due to children consuming more foods that are high in fat and sugars and spending less time doing physical activity. Children that become obese are more likely to stay obese into adulthood and have an increased risk of developing both short and long-term health concerns. Obesity has also significant economic impacts, in 2008 the total annual costs of obesity for both children and adults in Australia, including health system costs, productivity and careers costs, was estimated to be around fifty - eight billion (Abs.gov.au, 2014).

In conclusion, Italian cookery has influenced the Australian cuisine negatively, if regularly consuming refined ingredients in our diet. If we continue to intake processed ingredients and products, long-term health and wellbeing implications will rise for the Australian society and our health systems.

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