In 1988 at the Fourth Symposium of Australian Gastronomy Vic Cherikoff delivered a paper Bush Food and the True Australian Cuisine.
In his paper he said:
I maintain that only a cuisine utilising indigenous produce can be truly Australian.
In 1989 Cherikoff published The Bushfood Handbook. How to gather, grow, process & cook Australian wild foods. In 1992 Vic Cherikoff published Uniquely Australian. A wild food cookbook. The beginnings of an Australian bushfood cuisine. This article reviews them as the first cookery books of Australian bush cuisine.
