What the world eats

There is a lot of variety in food around the world. Lets take the American food and Australian food for example. These two types of food has many differences, from history to its common ingredients. Lets first try to understand how the history differs in this two food preparations.

Before the European colonists came to America, the American Indians had an established cookery style that varied greatly from group to group. The vast variety of ingredients, drugs and cookery styles were never found in the same locality; any one group had a much more limited diet. Nutrition was an issue for most hunting and gathering societies that wandered widely in search of game and who might encounter serious shortages in wintertime.

This was the history of American food from Wikipedia. Now we will try to understand the some key features of the Australian food.

Modern Australian cuisines have been heavily influenced by its Asian neighbours, particularly Indian cuisine from South Asia, Chinese and Japanese cuisine from East Asia, and Thai and Vietnamese cuisine from South-East Asia. Much of this influence is due to the many waves of immigrants from these nations. Similarly, Mediterranean influences from Greek, Lebanese, Italian cuisines are very common with many of these influences arriving in Australia during the 1950s and 1960s. Fresh produce is readily available and thus used extensively, and the trend (urged by long-term government health initiatives) is towards low-salt, low-fat healthy cookery incorporating lean meat and lightly cooked, colourful, steamed or stir-fried vegetables. With most of the Australian population residing in coastal areas, fish and seafood is popular. Australia's favourable climate has also made barbecues a commonplace event at gatherings of friends and families. Barbecues are also common in fund raising for schools and local communities, where sausages and cooked onion are served on white bread with tomato sauce or Barbecue sauce. These are most often referred to as "Sausage Sizzles". Some English trends are still evident in the domestic cooking of many Australians of Anglo-Celtic descent. Among these is the widespread tradition of having roast turkey, chicken, and ham with trimmings followed by a plum pudding for Christmas lunch or dinner, despite the fact that Christmas is at the height of the Southern Hemisphere summer.The typical breakfast of Australians strongly resembles breakfast in many Western countries. Owing to the warm weather in some parts of Australia breakfast is generally light but in the colder regions porridge or meals similar to the full English breakfast may be consumed. The light breakfast commonly consists of cereals, toast (with a spread) and fruit. A heavier cooked breakfast will frequently include fried bacon, egg, mushroom, baked beans, sausages, tomatoes, toast with spread. Drinks taken at breakfast include tea, coffee, flavoured milk or juice. A popular breakfast food in Australia is Vegemite, a black, salty spread similar to Marmite, applied to toast or bread.

This was about the background and breakfast of Australian food. Now i think its enough to tell you how much food differs from places and places. Well America is so far from Australia that a plane also take 16 hours[if its a direct flight]!