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Book SynopsisUnique historical importance and modern appealSo far this year, the Mediterranean diet has been touted as able to lower your cholesterol, reduce pain, increase your lifespan, ease depression and 'cure' ADHD. Whatever the real story might be, it's clear that eating more fruit and vegetables, and less meat and processed foods, provides real benefit to health.In Australia, this story begins with Philip E. Muskett, a colony-born physician with a calling to improve the health and wellbeing of new colonists who were struggling with the climate and lifestyle of the land Down Under.Muskett's seminal work was published in 1893. The Art of Living in Australia is an appeal to white Australians to embrace a southern European approach to food and climate.Now, a new edition of The Art of Living in Australia, complete with index and original facsimiles, is available from Sydney University Press. This Australian classic offers a unique view on the daily lives of post-colonial Australians - and some anachronistic gems! - while also delivering over 300 Mediterranean-style recipes that predate the modern trend for healthy and natural eating by over 100 years.
Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: the art of living in Australia 1. The climate of Australia 2. The alphabetical pentagon of health for Australia 3. Ablution - the skin and the bath 4. Bedroom ventilation 5. Clothing, and what to wear 6. Diet - importance of breakfast, fruit, tea, coffee, iced drinks, tobacco 7. Exercise 8. On school cookery, and its influence on the Australian daily life 9. Australian food habits, and their faults - a plea for their improvement 10. Australian fish and oysters - and their food value 11. On salads; salad plants and herbs; and salad 12. On Australian wine, and its place in the Australian daily dietary Part 2: Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information 13. The kitchen 14. The ice chest 15. The stock pot 16. Soup 17. Fifty recipes for soups 18. Fifty recipes for fish 19. Fifty recipes for meat dishes 20. Fifty recipes for vegetable dishes 21. Fifty recipes for salads and sauces 22. Fifty recipes for sweetsIndex
