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 Photos: Maria Øien and Stian Thoresen |
| In celebration of the abundance of the local bush tucker Steve Sunk will be ‘cooking up a storm’ at Merrepen using the fresh supply of local ingredients from the Daly River Region. |
| Bush Tucker Picnic Baskets |
| Bush Tucker picnic baskets will be available for purchase at the concert on Saturday night. |
| The baskets will be for two people to share and will contain, cured meats, barramundi, crocodile, kangaroo pastrami, cheese, bread and salad drizzled with a dressing infused with local bush tucker herbs, all this for only $15.00. |
| Steve Sunk the ‘Walk About Chef’ |
| A chef for nearly 40 years, Steve Sunk is Senior Lecturer in Hospitality and Cookery at Charles Darwin University, in Darwin. |
| Steve doesn't just contain himself to the lecture halls and kitchens of the university but takes his passion for cookery into the far-flung communities of northern and central Australia. Steve designed and implemented the Back to Basics program, the most popular course taught in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. The course aims to improve nutrition, health, literacy and numeracy among Aboriginal students by teaching recipes that combine the best of western foods, with bush tucker. |
| His first cookery courses were with the women of the Daly River community, where he was dubbed the Walkabout Chef for his tendency to move from one community to another – each time bringing the message that simple but delicious meals with high nutritional value could be created with bush tucker. |
| Steve uses the bush tucker found in each community and combines these ingredients with European techniques. |
| In February 2007 Steve launched his cookbook Walkabout Chefs in collaboration with photographer David Hancock, the book contains more than 40 recipes based on Sunk’s encounters with bush tucker. |
| Walkabout Chefs is published by Skyscans Australia and available at major retailers and online. http://www.walkaboutchefs.com/ http://www.skyscans.com/ |
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