Taste buds Down Under

摘要

In The McLaren Vale, in South Australia, Russell's restaurant opens on Friday nights to serve only two Mediterranean specialities: wood-fired pizzas as crispy as any you will find in Naples and bowls of dukkah, an Egyptian dip made from hazelnuts, coriander, ground cumin, sesame seeds, salt and pepper. Forty kilometres (22 miles) away in downtown Adelaide, Silesian immigrants in the 1860s founded Australia's first major fruit and vegetable market. Today Central Markets sells sausages and kangaroo steaks, bottles of Australian virgin olive oil—pressed from olive trees that were planted by Italian immigrants in the 1950s—and bok choy, lemon grass and chillies, grown and farmed by the more recent waves of Asian immigrants.