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Bush food, Aboriginal food and herbal medicine, Jennifer Isaacs

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Bush food, Aboriginal food and herbal medicine, Jennifer Isaacs

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Bibliography: p. 244-251

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bush food

Responsibility statement

Jennifer Isaacs

Sub title

Aboriginal food and herbal medicine

Summary

Bush Food is an exploration of these traditional skills and a compendium of the kinds of foods eaten by Aborigines. It indicates how food is caught or gathered, hunted or picked, how it is prepared and cooked, and what nutritional value it has. It considers, too, the use of natural products in traditional Aboriginal herbal medicine

Table Of Contents

1 Naturalists, Hunters and Gatherers -- 2 Seasons and the Australian Environment -- 3 People, Plants and Animals -- 4 Cooking Techniques -- 5 Fruit -- 6 Nuts -- 7 Roots, Tubers, Corms and Bulbs -- 8 Seeds and Damper -- 9 Green Vegetables -- 10 Honey, Gum and Nectar -- 11 Land Animals -- 12 Marine Animals and Fish -- 13 Shellfish -- 14 Billabong and Swamp Animals -- 15 Insects and Grubs -- 16 Herbal Medicine

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Aboriginal food and herbal medicine

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