Karl Hecht

Abstainers And Vegan History Karl Hecht

Thanks to our multicultural society you can find almost any variety of food that you fancy in Australia. Migrants from all over the world have immigrated to Australia and brought their culinary traditions with them. Australia has an abundance of fresh food all year round.
This book gives an alternative view of the traditional Australian dietary culture. It tells the story of vegetarian and vegan Australians living and working in a settler society founded on a promise of 'meat three times a day. Through an analysis of literature and newspapers, it examines how the diet became part of an artistic and cultural battle for Australian identity. The growth of the health and natural food movement and the influence and development in Australia of abstentionist religious and temperance movements are also revealed.