13th New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy and Food Finally made it to a New Zealand Symposium and a very enjoyable, stimulating time it was. Read my highlights here. The Chocolate-Brewing Witches of Colonial Latin America One mother-daughter pair, the wealthy mulata, or African and European, widow Francisca de Agreda and her daughter, Juana, mixed …
Prunings and pickings from the 13th New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy and Food History, Hamilton Gardens 1 – 2 February 2020
This was my first New Zealand Symposium, and an enjoyable, stimulating and illuminating gathering it was. The theme was gardens, and the venue, appropriately, was the Hamilton Gardens with its Te Parapara Maaori garden and its kitchen, herb, and sustainable 'enclosed gardens'. Below are sketches of some of the highlights for me. The proceedings will …
Where are the chestnuts? A recipe search.
Maria-Teresa Corino. 2018 Pictured above are chestnut trees planted along the Waikato River in Hamilton, New Zealand where Maria-Teresa Corino lives. 'All over New Zealand', she writes, 'a bounty of chestnuts is available for free to anyone who can be bothered picking them off the ground. Unlike, for example, wild mushrooms, they can’t kill you, …
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“Tis and unweeded garden, that goes to seed”
Max Dingle presented this paper to the 13th New Zealand Symposium of New Zealand Gastronomy and Food. It humorously describes the making of his prolific native food garden on his property at Sussex Inlet in New South Wales, Australia.
