English. January 26th is the Australia Day.
This anniversary celebrates the day when, in 1788, captain Arthur Phillip officially started the English colonisation of that land, beginning from New South Wales. We would like to make a typical aussie dish, but it is quite impossible.
Actually, Australia is a real melting pot, a big, wonderful continent where plenty of different cultures, languages, customs live together. In the "down under" the idea of "traditional cuisine" as we Italians know it, doesn't exist. To be honest, due to the globalization, this concept is getting more abstract by us too...
All over the world the Pavlova cake is recognized as the national australian dessert (even if New Zealander say they invented it!). But we wanted to make an easier dessert, so we decided to make Lamingtons. So, on January 26th, while we will eat our dessert in our warm houses, drinking a hot tea, Australians will have their Lamingtons after a bbq in the backyard or on the beach!
It seems that a French man invented this dessert. It was Armand Gallad, in 1900, in Brisbane. He was cook at local governor's house, Lord Charles Cochrane-Baillie, baron of Lamington.
