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World potential for bush tucker mooted in Alice Springs - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)28/10/10 10:23 AMWorld potential for bush tucker mooted in AliceSpringsPosted Wed Feb 2, 2005 3:19pm AEDTA speaker at a hospitality and tourism conference in Alice Springs says central Australia should become thenative foods capital of the world.Rosario Scarparto from Latrobe University in Victoria says there is a movement worldwide by people towards foodsthat have tastes unique to the regions they are found in.He says Alice Springs with its bush tucker is a new frontier for flavours and could become a gastronomic destinationfor tourists."Alice Springs can play a very huge role on an international level for this kind of thing, native gastronomy, desertgastronomy," he said.Meanwhile, Charles Darwin University academic and chef Athol Wark says the hospitality industry will have to workwith Aboriginal communities if Alice Springs is to make the most out of its bush tucker.Mr Wark says students will have to be taught how to include bush tucker into dishes if the market is to grow."We also need the Aboriginal community to embrace this and to share their culture and to really teach us the ways,"he said."Because obviously it's a very cultural sensitive situation and we need to respect that."Tags: food-and-beverage, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, food-and-cooking, alice-springs-0870© 2010 ABChttp://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/02/02/1294419.htm?site=newsPage 1 of 1