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The cuisines of Oceania include those found on Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea, and also cuisines from many other islands or island groups throughout Oceania.
Since the region of Oceania consists of islands, seafood is a prominent part of the diet, with vegetables such as potatoes, sweet potato, taro and yams being the main starch. Coconut, and its derivative products such as coconut milk, coconut oil and coconut sugar, is an important ingredient in the tropics of Oceania.
One of the most distinctive styles of cooking throughout Oceania is the earth oven, a method which involves laying food on hot rocks and burying it in earth. The technique originated in Papua New Guinea and was subsequently spread by Austronesian seafarers. It was historically the main method of cooking among the Polynesians ideal to their tree and root crops thus made the established pottery culture of their Lapita ancestors obsolete; some Polynesian peoples in their contact with European explorers centuries later quickly adopted to the latter's metal cookware, as was what happened between the Māori of Poverty Bay confronting [clarification needed] James Cook's HMS Endeavour in 1769.[1]
- ^ Leach, Helen (2007). "Cooking with pots - again". In Anderson, Atholl; Green, Kaye; Leach, Foss (eds.). Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture in Honour of Janet M. Davidson. Otago University Press. pp. 53–7. ISBN 978-1-877372-45-2.