{"id":2781,"date":"2012-02-22T13:14:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T01:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2012-02-22T13:14:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T01:14:56","slug":"field-notes-no-mcdonalds-just-local-foods-are-the-way-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/field-notes-no-mcdonalds-just-local-foods-are-the-way-to-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Notes: No McDonald\u2019s, just local foods are the way to eat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hannah Strange, Florida Down Under<\/a>\u00a0 marketing intern, encourages students to eat local foods in Australia and Fiji:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>With Valentine\u2019s Day last week, it seems everyone is still talking about a certain special thing \u2013 chocolate! Of course what kind of chocolate you\u2019re thinking about really depends on where you are from.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m English, so for me you can\u2019t beat a bit of good old Dairy Milk<\/a> , but if you were from Australia you may well be thinking about the local delicacy of Tim Tams ! Just last week I found this DELECTABLE recipe for a Tim Tam cake; just don\u2019t make too many before spring break! Click here<\/a>\u00a0 for the recipe.<\/p>\n

Between finding this recipe and a recent visit at UF<\/a>\u00a0 from Eleanor<\/a>\u00a0 in which we talked about ALL of the foods we miss from our home countries, I realized that a huge part of traveling is experiencing the food culture in that country. We often associate a given country with a specific food item. For instance you think of Italy \u2013 no carb left behind. France? Cheese and wine. Kung Pao chicken \u2013 clearly China.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I know when we were in Fiji<\/a> , we all loved the vast amounts of curry (only sometimes wondering when we were ever going to eat anything else), but in Australia<\/a>\u00a0 it was definitely a game to see who had the best face when they first tasted Vegemite<\/a> . I am a huge Marmite<\/a>\u00a0 fan, so I found this particularly amusing.<\/p>\n

What I mean to say is that if you don\u2019t try Tim Tams<\/a>, Vegemite and sea salt and lime chips in Australia and kava and curry in Fiji, then you are missing out on a huge part of the culture of those countries. I\u2019m not saying you have to try eating mealie worms (though by all means give it a shot, I did) but maybe steer clear of McDonald\u2019s<\/a> ? You have it at home, it\u2019s basically the same thing and it is a lot better for the economy if you eat local. So give regional foods a try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hannah Strange, Florida Down Under\u00a0 marketing intern, encourages students to eat local foods in Australia and Fiji: With Valentine\u2019s Day last week, it seems everyone is still talking about a certain special thing \u2013 chocolate! Of course what kind of chocolate you\u2019re thinking about really depends on where you are from. I\u2019m English, so for me you can\u2019t beat a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-north-queensland","category-field-notes","category-fiji"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}