Modern Australian cuisine, also known as Mod Oz or contemporary Australian cuisine, is the

fusion cuisine Fusion cuisine is cuisine that combines elements of different culinary traditions that originate from different countries, regions, or cultures. They can occur naturally and become aspects of culturally relevant cuisines, or they can be part of ...

characteristic to Australia.

History

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is derived from the tastes of immigrant settlers to Australia and the produce they have introduced to the continent, combined with the produce indigenous to Australia. The British colonial period established a strong base of interest in

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style recipes and methods. After

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, subsequent waves of

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immigration, with a majority drawn from Asia and the Mediterranean region, and the strong, sophisticated food cultures these ethnic communities have brought with them influenced the development of Australian cuisine. Arguably the first Modern Australian restaurant was Sydney's Bayswater Brasserie (est. 1982), which offered Mediterranean dishes with Asian and Middle Eastern influences and "showed Sydney ..that food can be adventurous without being expensive". The term itself was first used in print in the 1993 edition of the Sydney Morning Herald ''Good Food Guide'', which placed 34 restaurants under this heading, and was quickly adopted to describe the burgeoning food scene in Sydney in the 1990s. Leading exponents of the style include

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, Neil Perry and

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. As of 2014, the term is considered somewhat dated, with many restaurants preferring to call their style "contemporary Australian cuisine" instead.

Notable Modern Australian restaurants

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, Sydney * Taxi Kitchen, Melbourne * Tetsuya's, Sydney *

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, Sydney *

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, Melbourne

References

{{Reflist Australian cuisine Australian fusion cuisine

History

Notable Modern Australian restaurants

See also

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