Maori Settlers Food

The maori settlers came in around about 1300 AD. When they came into new zealand they made iconic food from heaps of plants and different meats for example, a meat they ate was mutton bird which is still eaten in this generation by some of the people living in New Zealand. Another example is the famous flower or sprout, Koru they used to eat this without cooking it but its carcinogenic which means it can cause cancer if you don't cook it properly. The early settlers usually ate a diet of 1 meat and 3 veg a lot of the time. heres a wide range of some foods eaten by the maori in the early day which are still eaten to this day, Fried bread, mussels, mostly all shellfish, kina, koru, salmon, mutton, potaetoes, maize, carrots, cabbage, kumara and heaps more. Maori had to gather this food aswell obviously but they had cool and interesting ways to do gather and store food. To keep the food preserved they preserved large quantities of food by drying it, fermenting it or sealing it in fat. The food was stored in storehouses or underground pits. Some British settlers moved out to New Zealand soon after they heard that there had been a new country discovered, then came along the food brought by the British, heres some food they introduced to NZ, flour, rice, salted meat, dried peas, sugar, alcohol, vinegar, seeds and vine cuttings. However the British settlers came into new zealand between 1840's and thje 1914's they came mostly by boat sometimes boats didn't make it in time to keep all of the food that they had fresh or not old and moldy.