Introduction -- Chapter 1 - A national dish? -- Chapter 2 - Bush tucker -- Setting the story straight -- Resources of the sea -- Kangaroo and other game -- Native fruits and vegetables -- Wild raspberries and native currants -- Exotica -- Enthusiastic experimenters -- Twentieth-century disenchantment -- Bush food revival -- Chapter 3 - Land of picnics -- Australian picnics -- Picnic excursions -- Christmas and New Year picnics -- Holiday picnics -- Picnic fare -- Boiling the billy -- Chapter 4 - Australian barbecues -- Chop picnics -- Introducing the barbecue -- Domestication of the barbecue -- Barbecue entertaining -- Cooking with gas -- The sausage sizzle -- Chapter 5 - Chops rampant -- Beginnings -- Flock expansion -- Too much meat! -- Refrigeration to the rescue -- Eternal mutton -- From mutton to lamb -- Chapter 6 - Land of cakes -- Women and cakes -- Multiplying the variations -- Craze for coconut -- The emblematic Anzac -- Boiled fruit cake -- Pumpkin scones -- Damper -- Pavlova -- Chapter 7 - Pie 'n' sauce -- Pie carts and coffee stalls -- Bakery pies -- Domestic pies -- Cornish pasties -- Hamburgers and other fast foods -- Tomato sauce -- Piquant condiments -- Jams and other preserves -- Chapter 8 - Made in Australia -- Minties and Freddo Frogs -- Milk Arrowroots and Tim Tams -- The triumph of advertising: Vegemite and Milo -- Conclusion -- List of illustrations -- Select bibliography -- Index.