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I am seriously fed up to the back teeth with Australians being brow beaten into denying their own hospitality history at the chance of being labled a racist, redneck or any number of other titles. I can hear the hordes now saying finally we see the true Glenn Austin, well here it comes. I have just finished in Sydney visiting the food show and attending a number of high level meetings with various groups on how we should showcase Australia cuisine internationally. You would no sooner get involved in discussion on an option when some part of the group would question if we were potentially going to alienate some minority group by taking that particular path. It got to the point that if we mentioned, All Australian, Naturally Australian or Historically Australian we were on the verge of upsetting someone new to the country. Well bugger me and correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty well convinced that our tourism numbers are based on a number of key issues, our wether, beaches and rainforests, being a safe country to visit and stay, the friendliness of our people and the fantastic produce and cuisines we have to work with as culinarians.
To get to this point we are also seen as one of the most accepting groups of people on the planet and being this accepting has seen Australian hospitality and cuisine reach and in a lot of cases exceed the rest of the globe. So how about we forget trying to convince the up and coming hospitality participants that things are done better elsewhere, and to be careful of not upsetting the minorities, and return to what you were born to be and that is a true Aussie.
For those of you that may not be aware of what this is I will quickly give you the 101 lesson. In my view A true Aussie is a cheerful person that has good all round family and community morals, if a male they give their seats up to ladies and the elderly, they open doors for women, carry bags and have a genuine healthy appreciation of humour and are prone to sip the odd beer or two. Sounds good so far well there is more.
If you find a great Aussie of either sex in the kitchen they will proudly work with great Australian produce like our beef lamb and seafood, they turn this already fantastic produce into something outstanding to consume whilst not messing around too much with the integrity of the product. They take butter, sugar and eggs to make mouth-watering desserts. And select the best brews from our fantastic outstanding beer and wine makers to serve with it. If this is just too much, then keep the wine and grad a piece of cheese any amount of the true Australian tuckers crackers and gorge on that, to hopefully end the afternoon with either a football game, a hit of cricket or some southing Aussie rock music.
If you are sitting in anyone of our eating establishments you will hopefully have a well-informed wait person that can have a joke, understands the region they are in, can match food and wine as well as speak to any amount of topics on the area you may want to know about. They are not pretentious just courteous and hopefully have a healthy amount of larrikin in them, another great Aussie trait
We are one of the most sort after destinations on the planet, we are not Asian, Middle Eastern or European, we are Aussies so stand up for who you are, own it wear it and be proud of it. Produce food representative of our nation to the best of your ability and serve it to the wonderful people known as tourists who come to experience who and what we are.