native ingredients
Local culinary components
Native ingredients are foods, plants, or other materials that originate from a particular region rather than being introduced from elsewhere.
The term appears most often in culinary contexts, where chefs emphasize ingredients indigenous to the local landscape: The restaurant showcases native ingredients like wattleseed and finger lime.
In Australian and American cuisine especially, native ingredients often connect to Indigenous foodways and traditional knowledge.
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- foragedSought wild food
- wildNot domesticated or controlled
- hunter gathererPre-agricultural food procurer
- localOf this area
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