Native foods inspire company and Outback Spirit brand

摘要

The path to establishing Robins Foods and its Outback Spirit range of native food products began in the mid-'80s over a pot of raspberry jam. Professional chef Juleigh Robins was making jam when she asked her husband and business partner, Ian, "What fruit can we cook with that's native Australian?" "In the early days I was determined to track down a desert fruit that I knew by the name of 'bush tomato'. 1 had no idea what I was doing, nor indeed what the indigenous name for this fruit might be. "I just got on the phone and rang places like the Hermansberg Mission and tried to describe it from the small sample that I'd been given. Eventually, it was suggested that 1 call a particular community in the Tanami Desert. In an incredible display of generosity, Janet Chisholm from Napperby Station and Rita Nungala of the Laramba community offered to send me a selection of bush foods in the hope that what I wanted would be there," Robins says.