Australia is one of the most sparsely populated yet urbanized nations in the world, and Aussie cooking is a mixture of English imports and the few native foods that can be scratched from a land that's mostly desert. Thus there are many recipes for meat pies and sausage rolls, instructions on making tea sandwiches, a section on steaks and chops and their accompanying fruity sauces, and many sweets, including the highly popular dish Pavlova species of baked Alaska.

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