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Line 1: {{Short description\|Cuisine native to the South Pacific}} [[File:locationOceania.png\|right\|250px]] {{Culture of Oceania sidebar}} The '''[[cuisine]]s of Oceania''' include those found on [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], and [[New Guinea]], and also cuisines from many other islands or island groups throughout [[Oceania]]. A [[cuisine]] is a characteristic style of [[cooking]]for Chinese practices and traditions,<ref>[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cuisine "Cuisine."] [http://www.thefreedictionary.com Thefreedictionary.com]. Accessed June 2011.</ref> often associated with a specific [[culture]].all so go to the Bahamas and it close 12:30 Since the region of Oceania consists of islands, seafood is a prominent part of the diet, with vegetables such as [[potatoes]], [[sweet potato]], [[taro]] and [[Yam (vegetable)\|yams]] being the main starch. [[Coconut]], and its derivative products such as [[coconut milk]], [[coconut oil]] and [[coconut sugar]], ~~are~~is an important ingredient in the tropics of Oceania. One of the most distinctive styles of cooking throughout Oceania is the [[earth oven]], a method which involves laying food on hot rocks and burying it in earth. The technique originated in Papua New Guinea and was subsequently spread by ~~austronesian~~[[Austronesian ~~settlers~~peoples\|Austronesian]] seafarers. ==Australia== Line 19 ⟶ 21: ** {{Flagicon\|Western Australia}} [[Western Australian cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Christmas Island}} [[Christmas Island cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Cocos (Keeling) Islands}} [[~~Cocos~~Cocossian cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Norfolk Island}} [[Norfolk Island cuisine]] <gallery class="center" caption="Australian foods and dishes" widths="200px" heights="150px"> File:Balmain Bug (841993847).jpg~~\|thumb~~\|A cooked [[Ibacus peronii\|Balmain bug]]. Also known as the butterfly fan lobster, it is a [[species]] of [[slipper lobster]] that lives in shallow waters around Australia. File:Australian bush tucker, Alice Springs.jpg~~\|thumb~~\|[[Bush tucker]] (bush foods) harvested at Alice Springs Desert Park. Bush foods are edible native plant species and animal products used by indigenous Australians as a contemporary or traditional food.<ref>Lister, Peter R., Holford, Paul, Haigh, Tony, Morrison, David A. (1996). [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1996/v3-228.html "Acacia in Australia: Ethnobotany and Potential Food Crop."] [http://www.ag.purdue.edu Purdue University Horticulture & Landscape Architecture]. Accessed July 2011.</ref> File:Granny smith and cross section.jpg\|[[Granny Smith\|Granny Smith apples]] originated in Australia. File:Hspchips_(cropped).jpg\|[[Halal snack pack]], an Australian fast food dish of doner kebab meat and chips with sauces. Line 34 ⟶ 36: * {{Flagicon\|Fiji}} [[Fijian cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|New Caledonia\|FLNKS}} [[New Caledonian cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Papua New Guinea}} [[Papua New Guinean cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Solomon Islands}} [[Solomon Islands cuisine]] Line 47 ⟶ 49: * {{Flagicon\|Kiribati}} [[Gilbertese cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Guam}} [[Guamanian cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Northern Mariana Islands}} [[Cuisine of the Mariana Islands\|Mariana Islands cuisine]]▼ * {{Flagicon\|Marshall Islands}} [[Marshallese cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Federated States of Micronesia}} [[Micronesian cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Nauru}} [[Nauruan cuisine]] ▲* {{Flagicon\|Northern Mariana Islands}} [[Cuisine of the Mariana Islands\|~~Mariana~~Northern ~~Islands~~Marianan cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Palau}} [[Palauan cuisine]] <gallery class="center" caption="Micronesian foods and dishes" widths="200px" heights="150px"> File:Paniki manado.jpg\|[[Paniki (food)\|Paniki]] in yellow soup. </gallery> ==Polynesia== '''Polynesian cuisine''' encompasses the culinary practices of [[Polynesia]], an area notably defined as the [[Polynesian Triangle]] and occasionally, the [[Polynesian outlier]]s that have been settled by [[Polynesians\|Polynesian]] seafarers. The vast area of Polynesia has had a great influence on the cuisine itself, differing as a result of climate, geography and neighbouring island groups, such as the practice of harvesting and boiling down [[Coconut sugar\|coconut sap]] in the atolls from [[Micronesian people]]s or the harvesting and processing of [[sago]] in the outliers from [[Melanesians]]. Polynesian cuisine has been influenced by the [[Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia\|traditional ingredients]] and preparations of the Polynesians, as well as [[European cuisine\|European]], [[Asian cuisine\|Asian]] and [[Cuisine of the Americas\|American]] culinary practices. The Polynesian cuisine had influenced the [[Malagasy cuisine]]. ~~Bahamas no Bahamas~~ * {{Flagicon\|American Samoa}} [[American Samoan cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Cook Islands}} [[Cuisine of the Cook islands\|Cook Islands cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|French Polynesia}} [[French Polynesian cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Hawaii}} [[Cuisine of Hawaii\|Hawaiian cuisine]] ** {{Flagicon\|Native Hawaiians}} [[Native Hawaiian cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|New Zealand}} [[New Zealand cuisine]] ** {{Flagicon\|Maori}} [[Māori cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Niue}} [[Niuean cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Easter Island}} [[Pascuense cuisine]] Line 71 ⟶ 76: * {{Flagicon\|Tonga}} [[Tongan cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Tuvalu}} [[Tuvaluan cuisine]] * {{Flagicon\|Wallis and Futuna\|local}} [[Wallis and Futuna cuisine]] <gallery class="center" caption="Polynesian foods and dishes" widths="200px" heights="150px"> File:Hangi prepare.jpg~~\|thumb~~\|A [[~~Hāngi~~hāngī]] being prepared, a New Zealand Māori method of cooking food for special occasions using hot rocks buried in a pit oven. Image:Pavlova.png\|A [[pavlova (food)\|~~Pavlova~~pavlova]] is a [[meringue]]-based dessert and an icon of Australian and New Zealand cuisine. File:Bowl of poi.jpg\|A bowl of [[Poi (food)\|~~Poi~~poi]], a starchy paste eaten in Eastern Polynesia. Image:Kiwi (Actinidia chinensis) 1 Luc Viatour edit.jpg\|[[Kiwifruit]], a well-known New Zealand food. File:Pig on the Samoan Umu.jpg\|[[Samoa]]n ''[[Earth oven\|umu]]'', an oven of hot rocks above ground.