Kia ora team - Happy New Year!
We have lots of booky things coming up - young adult book club, children's book club, grown up book clubs and cook book club. Cook Book Club is going to be fascintaing - have a squiz at who's coming and what they have to show us (last item).
These events are in date order, so scroll until you see the one for you.
Children's Book Club Sunday 4th February, 10am - 11am Wardini Books NAPIER (https://fb.me/e/c0JpJOrh0)
Join our Adele for a delve into what's wonderful in the world of children's reading. Chats, activities, recommendation and lots of laughter. Email Adele on napier@wardini.co.nz to say you're coming or to ask a question.
General Grown Up Book Clubs Tuesday 6th February, 7pm, Wardini Books NAPIER Wednesday 7th February, 7pm, Wardini Books HAVELOCK NORTH
We all read the same book and have a jolly good natter about it, and about other books, and about all sorts of other things! In February, we're discussing Bird Life by Anna Smaill. Click on the pic to go to our web listing for what it's about.
Cook Book Club Thursday 15th February, 6pm Wardini Books NAPIER Special guest: Duncan Galletly (https://fb.me/e/5jtViVOIm)
Duncan Galletly, while juggling life as an academic anaesthetist, cider maker and food obsessive, began to collect, and research the first New Zealand cookbooks in the late 1980s. He has researched the lives of our early cookbook writers, and has presented and published work on many NZ cookbook-related topics; stains and annotations as a guide to what people actually cooked, the bindings of old cookbooks, tomato sauce in New Zealand, the naming of cakes and biscuits, cake and biscuit diversity and entropy, the tantric lessons of the afghan, the history of Spanish Cream, the illustration of cookbooks, the first community cookbooks, cider making in NZ, why the iconic cakes and biscuits became iconic, early baking powder manufacturers, Chinese restaurants in NZ newspapers, the origin of curry, Shakespearian food and cookery, food reviews on social media, beverages in early NZ cookbooks, and 365 days on social media as @aristologist.
With Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Garden Party’ as the starting point, he is currently researching the ‘dainty' sandwiches of Edwardian New Zealand. He publishes a journal of NZ food history - the Aristologist, has a website www.aristologist.com, and has convened a number of the NZ Symposia of Food History and Gastronomy.
Cookbooks from the late 19th century are extraordinarily rare, and provide a totally different view of NZ cuisine from that seen in later, widely disseminated, commercial (Edmonds), media (Aunt Daisy) and community cookbooks. Some are known only as single copies and few are represented in our national collections. Duncan will bring along, and talk about these first cookbooks, published between 1887 and 1900, as well as the very rare first Australian cookbook by Abbott (1864), and several other gastronomic treasures from France and Britain. This will be the first time these early New Zealand books have been shown together publicly.
WOW!
Hope you're keeping dangerously well, and that we'll see you very soon.
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