Oceanian Recipes

Oceanian cuisine spans the vast Pacific Ocean, encompassing Australia, New Zealand, and thousands of islands across Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Root vegetables like taro, yam, and sweet potato, along with coconut, breadfruit, and seafood, form the culinary foundation across the Pacific Islands. Earth oven cooking (umu, hangi, lovo) is a shared tradition. Australian and New Zealand cuisines add European settler traditions, Asian immigrant influences, and Indigenous foodways to create one of the world's most diverse culinary regions.