List of Oceanian cuisines

The cuisines of Oceania include those found on Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea, and also cuisines from many other islands or island groups throughout Oceania.

Since the region of Oceania consists of islands, seafood is a prominent part of the diet, with vegetables such as potatoes, sweet potato, taro and Yam (vegetable), yams being the main starch. Coconut, and its derivative products such as coconut milk, coconut oil and coconut sugar, is an important ingredient in the tropics of Oceania.

One of the most distinctive styles of cooking throughout Oceania is the earth oven, a method which involves laying food on hot rocks and burying it in earth. The technique originated in Papua New Guinea and was subsequently spread by Austronesian peoples, Austronesian seafarers.

Australia

Other than by climate and produce availability, Australian cuisine has been influenced by the tastes of settlers to Australia. The British colonial period established a strong base of interest in Anglo-Celts, Celtic style recipes and methods. Later influences developed out of multicultural immigration and included Chinese cuisine, Chinese, Japanese cuisine, Japanese, Malaysian cuisine, Malaysian, Thai cuisine, Thai, and Vietnamese cuisine, Vietnamese cuisines. Mediterranean cuisine influences from Greek cuisine, Italian cuisine, and Lebanese cuisine influences are strong, also influences from French cuisine, Indian cuisine, Spanish cuisine, and Turkish cuisine, German cuisine, and African cuisine. Regional Australian cuisines commonly use locally grown vegetables based on seasonal availability, and Australia also has large fruit growing regions. The Granny Smith variety of apples originated in Sydney, Australia in 1868. In the Southern states of Victoria (Australia), Victoria and South Australia, in particular the Barossa Valley, wines and food reflects the region's traditions and heritage. Australia's climate makes barbecues commonplace. Barbecue stalls selling sausages and fried onion on white bread with tomato or barbecue sauce are common.

* Australian cuisine
** New South Wales cuisine
** Northern Territory cuisine
** Queensland cuisine
** South Australian cuisine
** Tasmanian cuisine
** Victorian cuisine (Australia), Victorian cuisine
** Western Australian cuisine
* Christmas Island cuisine
* Cocossian cuisine
* Norfolk Island cuisine

File:Balmain Bug (841993847).jpg, A cooked Ibacus peronii, Balmain bug. Also known as the butterfly fan lobster, it is a species of slipper lobster that lives in shallow waters around Australia.
File:Australian bush tucker, Alice Springs.jpg, Bush tucker (bush foods) harvested at Alice Springs Desert Park. Bush foods are edible native plant species and animal products used by indigenous Australians as a contemporary or traditional food.Lister, Peter R., Holford, Paul, Haigh, Tony, Morrison, David A. (1996)
"Acacia in Australia: Ethnobotany and Potential Food Crop."Purdue University Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Accessed July 2011.
File:Granny smith and cross section.jpg, Granny Smith, Granny Smith apples originated in Australia.
File:Hspchips_(cropped).jpg, Halal snack pack, an Australian fast food dish of doner kebab meat and chips with sauces.
File:Hannover 2009 -Australisches Restaurant- by RaBoe005.jpg, A dish from an Australian restaurant.
File:Australisches Essen 2010-by-RaBoe-04.jpg, A fruit dessert dish in an Australian restaurant.

Melanesia

* Fijian cuisine
* New Caledonian cuisine
* Papua New Guinean cuisine
* Solomon Islands cuisine
* Vanuatuan cuisine

File:Laplap_sosor.jpg, Laplap, the national dish of Vanuatu.

Micronesia

* Gilbertese cuisine
* Guamanian cuisine
* Marshallese cuisine
* Micronesian cuisine
* Nauruan cuisine
* Cuisine of the Mariana Islands, Northern Marianan cuisine
* Palauan cuisine

File:Paniki manado.jpg, Paniki (food), Paniki in yellow soup.

Polynesia

Polynesian cuisine encompasses the culinary practices of Polynesia, an area notably defined as the Polynesian Triangle and occasionally, the Polynesian outliers that have been settled by Polynesians, Polynesian seafarers. The vast area of Polynesia has had a great influence on the cuisine itself, differing as a result of climate, geography and neighbouring island groups, such as the practice of harvesting and boiling down Coconut sugar, coconut sap in the atolls from Micronesian peoples or the harvesting and processing of Sago in the outliers from Melanesians. Polynesian cuisine has been influenced by the Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia, traditional ingredients and preparations of the Polynesians, as well as European cuisine, European, Asian cuisine, Asian and Cuisine of the Americas, American culinary practices. The Polynesian cuisine had influenced the Malagasy cuisine.

* American Samoan cuisine
* Cuisine of the Cook islands, Cook Islands cuisine
* French Polynesian cuisine
* Cuisine of Hawaii, Hawaiian cuisine
** Native Hawaiian cuisine
* New Zealand cuisine
** Māori cuisine
* Niuean cuisine
* Pascuense cuisine
* Pitcairn Islands cuisine
* Samoan cuisine
* Tokelauan cuisine
* Tongan cuisine
* Tuvaluan cuisine
* Wallis and Futuna cuisine

File:Hangi prepare.jpg, A Hāngi being prepared, a New Zealand Māori method of cooking food for special occasions using hot rocks buried in a pit oven.
Image:Pavlova.png, A pavlova (food), Pavlova is a meringue-based dessert and an icon of Australian and New Zealand cuisine.
File:Bowl of poi.jpg, A bowl of Poi (food), Poi, a starchy paste eaten in Eastern Polynesia.
Image:Kiwi (Actinidia chinensis) 1 Luc Viatour edit.jpg, Kiwifruit, a well-known New Zealand food.
File:Pig on the Samoan Umu.jpg, Samoan ''Earth oven, umu'', an oven of hot rocks above ground.

See also

* List of cuisines
* Culture of Oceania

References

{{Portal bar, Oceania, Food, Drink, Society, Wine, Lists

Oceanian cuisine,
Cuisine by continent
Food- and drink-related lists
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