Research Catalog

Title

First catch your weka : a story of New Zealand cooking / David Veart.

Author

Veart, David.

Publication

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2008.

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Description

vi, 330 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

First Catch Your Weka illuminates the elements that make New Zealand cooking distinctive and how our cuisine and culture have changed (the development of a nationalist cuisine of kumara, whitebait, and mussels in the 1920s, the arrival of Asian influences in the 1950s, the television cooks of the 1970s). Throughout this history, Veart finds a people who, frequently first liked to Catch Their Weka - building a meal out of oysters taken from the rocks, vegetables from the garden, and a lamb from the neighbouring farm. By telling the history of what we ate, tells us a great deal about who we have been.

Subject

• Cooking, New Zealand
• Cooking, New Zealand > History
• Food habits > New Zealand > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-322) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cookbooks brought from home: the early nineteenth century -- Our daily bread -- The cookbooks of Empire: the later nineteenth century -- Preserving the quarter-acre harvest -- Cooking ourselves: 1900-20 -- Sweet teeth -- The electrified cult of domesticity: the 1920s -- Handy hints for the household manager -- Hard times meet Hollywood and health food: the 1930s -- The cookbook goes to war: the 1940s -- Jam and Jerusalem -- Beaming housewives and the meals men prefer: the post-war world -- History in the baking -- Flash, foreign and the arrival of the TV cook: the 1960s -- Festival food -- Test kitchens and gin-soaked salads: the 1970s -- From foodies to farmer's Markets: the last 30 years.

ISBN

• 9781869404109
• 1869404106

OCLC

182735176

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library