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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I grew up on American TV and comic books and I remember desperately wanting to try a Twinkie after seeing them in the pages of Archie comics. When I finally did try the little processed sponge cake at the age of 10 or 11 I was shocked that a food so impossibly … nothing … could be considered iconic.