Food and Cuisine

1. From what we made in class today, there is a clear difference between the two countries cuisine's although many would think they would be very similar. Many of the New Zealand food we made was very sweet and contained more sweet ingredients such as butter, sugar, and other things such as chocolate chops, coconut, and vanilla. The Australian dishes were much more focused on other ingredients. Both the recipes included potatoes in the recipe, a vegetable, which is different from the New Zealand food which had no vegetables. The Australian food also called for more spices and seasoning.
2. I am excited and also nervous about trying new foods. I am nervous because if there is a restaurant we go to where they serve mostly native food that I have never tried, I will be nervous and not know what to get because when I order something that I don't know, I usually am nervous to eat it. However, I am also excited because I believe that these countries both have great food that I have never tried and I am excited to be exposed to this food and have an understanding of it.