In August CBCA Book Week helps us celebrate the delights of reading – they haven’t set food as a theme yet but we think they should! This clip is about looking for food references in students’ favourite fiction and working out the ways that food, as a narrative device, can move along plot and subtly reveal truths about character. Aunty Dale Tilbrook, Wardandi Bibbulmun Elder, gives the Super Naturals a quick sniff of some native ingredients like river mint, and opens up the opportunity to explore how heat and pressure can change the chemical structure of plants, unlocking flavours, aromas and nutrients.

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