Mac and cheese? Puh-lease! Adam Liaw on why we need to make Australian food great again
Adam Liaw
Photo: Marcel Aucar
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One thing you have to give the Americans credit for is the way they celebrate their food, even when it's not particularly good.
They'll take the most ordinary thing you could ever think to put in your mouth and worship it as if it were the bacon-wrapped second coming of Christ himself.
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