Subject guides: Food and Hospitality Industry Guide: Bush Foods

Bush Tucker

Bush Tucker (bush foods) harvested at Alice Springs Desert Park

Australian bush tucker, Alice Springs (c) Tourism NT, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons

Learning Resources

Department of Education and Training Victoria learning and teaching activities about Bush Foods.

Library Resources

All about bush foods [DVD] : Traditional and commercial uses "Bush foods - or bush tucker - have been consumed for thousands of years in Australia, and it makes us unique in the world when it comes to cuisine. For most of the time humans have been consuming bush foods they have done so on a non-cultivated, non-commercial basis. In recent decades however, some of Australia's bush tucker is being harvested commercially and sold around the world. Many will be familiar with our native meats - kangaroo, crocodile and emu - but there are dozens of plants and fruits that can form nutritious and very tasty additions to our diet. These foods include bush tomato, Davidson plums, Kakadu plums, macadamia nuts, mountain pepper and pepperberry, native mint, quandong, wattleseed and wild rosella. This highly engaging and interesting learning resource examines a range of Australian bush foods and looks at both traditional and commercial uses"--Container.
Call Number: 641.300994 ALLA
Bush food : Aboriginal food and herbal medicine Aborigines, Australian -- Food Aborigines, Australian -- Medicine Wild foods -- Australia Aborigines, Australian -- Ethnobotany Aborigines, Australian -- Ethnozoology
Call Number: 641.300899915 ISAA
Bush foods : Arrernte foods from Central Australia = Nhenhe-areye anwerne-arle arlkweme Wildlife as food -- Australia, Central Wild plants, Edible -- Australia, Central Wild foods -- Australia, Central Aborigines, Australian -- Australia, Central -- Food Aranda (Australian people) -- Food
Call Number: 641.300994291 TURN
Bush tucker : A guide to, and resources on, traditional Aboriginal foods of the north west of S.A. and Central Australia Wild foods Wildlife as food Wild plants, Edible Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Food Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Food
Call Number: 641.09942 WIN
Bush tucker : Australia's wild food harvest Wild foods--Australia. Aboriginal Australians--Food.
Call Number: 581.632 LOW
Bush tucker field guide by Hiddins, L. J. Wild foods -- Australia, Northern -- Identification Wild plants, Edible -- Australia, Northern -- Identification
Call Number: 581.6320994 HIDD
Cool drink and culture : the links between traditional bush foods and good health, and supermarket foods and poor health (DVD) A group of young women of the Mt Liebig Aboriginal community discuss the importance of bush food in their culture, and teach a group of children how to find and prepare traditional foods.
Call Number: 305.89915 COOL
Pocket bushtucker by Latz, P. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Food Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Medicine Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Ethnobotany Wild foods -- Australia, Central Wild plants, Edible -- Australia, Central Medicinal plants -- Australia, Central
Call Number: 581.63 LAT
Punu: Yankunytjatjara plant use : traditional methods of preparing foods, medicines, utensils and weapons from native plants by Kalotas, Arpad C.; Goddard , Cliff.; Everard, Pompey. Punu includes everything from trees, vines, grasses and fungi to food medicine, tools, weapons and ornaments. In this book elders of the Mimili community present the plants that grow in their country and tell how they have been used to provide the necessities for traditional life.
Call Number: 581.630994 PUNU
The bushfood handbook : how to gather, grow, process & cook Australian wild foods by Cherikoff, V. Aboriginal Australians -- Food Wild plants, Edible -- Australia Wild foods -- Australia Cookery (Wild foods)
Call Number: 581.632 CHE
Wild food plants of Australia by Low, T. Wild plants, Edible -- Australia -- Identification Cookery (Wild foods) Aborigines, Australian -- Food
Call Number: 581.632 LOW
Wild lime : cooking from the bushfood garden by Robins, J. Wild foods -- Australia Cookery (Wild foods) Cookery, Australian
Call Number: 641.5994 ROB

Useful Websites

Aboriginal Plant Use
Australian National Botanic Gardens website.
Angka Akatyerr-akert ~ a Desert raisin report.
2009 Report.
Australian Native Food Industry Limited
Australian Native Foods and Botanicals (ANFAB) is the peak national body which represents all interests in the rapidly growing Australian native food industry. The website provides a wide range of information including recipes, flavour of the months and bush tucker food standards.
Cultivating Bush Tucker
CSIRO video.
The Bush Tucker Diet - A Nutritional Analysis
This page is taken from an article written in 2005 on the Australian bush tucker diet, containing an overview of the bush tucker diet and a nutritional analysis of Australian bush tucker plant foods.