WEKAS AND QUEEN CAKES
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2009
The 200 plus women and four men who made up the audience were treated to an exceptionally entertaining hour by food history writers Alexa Johnston (art historian) and David Veart (anthropologist). They were ably led by food journalist Victoria Wells.
Alexa Johnston is of course the author of the much admired Ladies a Plate (Penguin), one of the surprise best-selling New Zealand books of 2008, while David Veart's witty and erudite title is First Catch Your Weka (AUP). BThey are both enaging speakers and both have new books due later this year.
They took us on a totally delightful romp through our culinary history after which there was a lively question time wiith issues raised including community gardens, microwave cookers, eport quality meat, offal, veal, supermarkets, frugality v hospitality, left-overs, spices and chutneys and food flavuring, halal butchers, Sunday roasts, metric measurements and measuring equipment.
All too soon the hour was up, the punters went away very happy.
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