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AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST MORNING TEA

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea is a great way to raise money for Cancer Council Australia.

ALLSPICE

The many variations of Allspice.

ALMONDS

We call them nuts, but they’re actually a seed. The seed of a leathery sage-coloured plum.

Apricots

There are a range of apricot varieties that will appear across late Spring and into Summer, but always choose deep-orange fruit with an obvious perfume.

AQUACULTURE

For the record, I am a big supporter of fish farming. It is a necessary industry in which Australians have initiated world’s best practice.

ARTICHOKES

Who’d have thought I’d be so vogue?

ASPARAGUS

Asparagus is the undeveloped shoot of a fern-like plant that, once mature, produces a fine frond and red berries.

AVOCADO

The world is bigger, simpler, and quieter, and I’m watching the lizards in the dirt under the shade of Mum’s avocado tree.

Baby corn

Sweet corn is always picked at an immature stage, while the sap is still present, but sometimes the corn is picked even earlier, at a truly immature stage we know as baby corn.

BANANAS

Ask any self-respecting chimp and they tell you that a banana should be peeled from the bottom, not the top.

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