Northern Territory Food & Travel Guide
The Northern Territory is one of those places where the scale changes everything: heat, red earth, long horizons and food that often comes with a story before it reaches the plate. Around Uluru and Alice Springs, I found bush foods, campfire dinners, Indigenous art, desert hotels and restaurants that made the Red Centre feel less like a postcard and more like a place you taste, listen to and remember.
I once got in terrible trouble at school for refusing to go to school camp. My geography teacher Mr Flanagan mentioned my lack of school camp participation in all of my school reports. Even after I had left high school, we bumped into him at the Easter Show and he still brought it up. Can I help it if the only thing I was mainly interested in eating damper around a campfire?
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