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Taste- Bankstown on a Plate
With it’s multicultural background Bankstown is a ‘foodie’ treasure, the city hosts literally hundreds of food and drink stores, cafes and restaurants, from Asia to Zimbabwe and everything in between, but the real discovery is the amazing cuisine being cooked in the homes of Bankstown residents everyday!
The contributors to this cookbook took part in the Bankstown Pressure Cooks competition as cultural advisors, contestants and judges. The competition involved 7 teams of 2 Bankstown residents competing across 3 heats and cooking recipes outside of their own culture.
The results were amazing and these delicious recipes speak for themselves – the variety will take you on a food trail around the world with all of the flavours and aroma’s blending and mixing in the City of Bankstown, so open the pages and Taste… Bankstown on a plate.
This great new book will be launched at Bankstown Bites, so come down for your chance to purchase one of the first copies and to talk to some of the cooks and contributors.
Forward by Joanna Savill
Food is a great vehicle for communicating, sharing and cultural understanding. These are all things that, by and large, Australians are pretty good at. We also love our food and the adventure of experiencing new tastes and flavours - either at each other's tables or in our own home kitchens. One of the greatest joys born out of our amazing cultural diversity is the depth, breadth and excitement it has brought to our food scene. And this is no trivial thing. After all, we are what we eat and what we cook. For many of us our recipes and the meals we create are central to our identity and our place in the world - and this book is a great demonstration of that.
The Taste cookbook is Australia and Australian food in a microcosm. It's all about who we are as a country, as a city, and in a richly multicultural local government area such as Bankstown. In so generously sharing their recipes and their stories with the rest of us, each contributor to this book is strengthening the connections we have as a community and bringing us all around a wonderful communal table to celebrate the power of good food.
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