Living the dream

DON'T ask Dan Hunter to define Australian cuisine, things may get touchy.

"Australia is a huge continent, not just a country. The food in the north is very different from what you get in the south, which is tropical," he says. "We often talk about regionality in Europe or Asia, and no one expects the food that you eat in Spain to be the same as what you get in Russia, but people forget that it is about the same distance from Melbourne to Queensland."

It sounds …