Australian
Australian cuisine have been shaped by the people who settled in Australia. Throughout the majority of Australian history, for as long as 40,000 years before European settlement, food traditions were based on the native bushfoods of indigenous Australians . Anglo-Celtic British and Irish food was brought to the country upon the arrival of the earliest settlers from the British Isles in the late 18th century, forming the foundation of the cooking of modern Australian for the next century or so. Later, in the 19th and especially 20th century, food began to reflect the influences of Mediterranean and Asian cultures, introduced by many immigrants who arrived in Australia during this period.