Accompanying the popular Australian TV series, Dining Downunder, The Dining Downunder Cookbook is a journey of three chefs across Australia, looking at our contemporary Australian cuisine, cooking with indigenous ingredients and sharing their passion of an authentic Australian food style.

Chefs Vic Cherikoff, Benjamin Christie and Mark McCluskey crank up the barbeque off the back of a boat in a sheltered bay in Sydney Harbour, travel to the valleys of the Blue Mountains in NSW, pop over to Margaret River in our far west or see what Australian ginger is all about up in the Queensland hinterland. The culinary delights of Australia are a lot more than just the promotional chefs over whom the general press is obsessed and Dining Downunder (TM) tracks down the quiet achievers, the dedicated and the low key stars of the Australian food industry. And it's all in the book.

There's Cherikoff’s introduction to the Australian native food industry which he pioneered back in the 1980s commercialising a collection of ingredients following their Aboriginal origins. Then the book features a foreword by Australian entrepreneur, Dick Smith, the face behind Dick Smith Foods, which uses native foods in a growing number of their all-Australian products.

Australian native fruits, seeds, nuts, herbs, spices, essential oils and products made from them, are emerging as a trend in the global marketplace. Together, they make a uniquely Australian cuisine possible with flavours that reflect their geographic origins of deep rainforests, outback deserts, coastal woodlands and alpine valleys.

While we have been supplying the food service industry for over 20 years via Vic Cherikoff Food Services P/L, this is our most recent foray into a retail range which will grow significantly over the next year.

Based in Sydney, we now have distributors all over Australia, in the UK and USA, many parts of Asia and Europe, in fact, 18 countries at present.

We are committed to stocking only the highest quality products which are made unique and special because of their use of native Australian ingredients. We hope that not only will you love these products but refer them to others who will appreciate the best flavours that Australia is beginning to offer.

Our suppliers, including remote community Aborigines as well as non-Aboriginal foragers, growers and farmers, have grown with our needs in terms of quality and post-harvest handling. However, please realise that these are still rare ingredients, only just being introduced to global markets. Therefore, while our customers can always be comforted in knowing we have done all the ground work in relation to quality, supply will be limited and so your chance to experience these wonderful flavours is essentially a step into the future of Australian food.

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