Of Aliments, Archives & Authors

HOW DUNNITS FROM LEADING KIWI SCRIBES AT ARANZ LECTURE

When:   Thursday, May 5, 2011, 5.30pm to 7pm.
Where:  Weltec City Campus, 11 Church Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Ace New Zealand authors are set to reveal their writers' resource wizardry while they were preparing magisterial works on Kiwi comestibles.  Susette Goldsmith (Suzy's - a coffee house history) and David Burton (New Zealand Food and Cookery) will tell the secrets of their research success at this year's ARANZ Lecture in Wellington on Thursday.

DAVID BURTON is the feared/admired restaurant critic for Wellington's Dominion Post and Cuisine magazine, an historian and writer of a number of foodie books from the Indian Raj through New Zealand cheese making to colonial French cooking.  But it was his massive food and cookery almanac (Bateman, 2009) that earned him praise for "unbelievably rigorous research". 

SUSETTE GOLDSMITH chose blonde, Dutch

immigrant, Suzy van der Kwast, founder of Wellington's iconic "Suzy's" 1960s coffee bar, as the peg on which to hang a complete coffee history (Quill, 2010), praised as "a favour for Wellingtonians".  The Taranaki editor and writer has unearthed treasures of Kiwi coffee and tea cultures from Alexander Turnbull Library and other troves. 

ARANZ is the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand, www.aranz.org.nz.  The ARANZ Lecture, part of Records and Archives Week (RAW) 2011, is supported by the School of Hospitality and Catering, Wellington Institute of Technology (Weltec), Petone.   The RAW 2011 theme is "From the Hangi pit to the Weetbix kid: Recording the history of food in New Zealand".

The ARANZ Lecture will run at the Weltec City campus, 11 Church Street (off Boulcott Street), Wellington, on Thursday, May 5.  Light refreshments from 5.30pm; ARANZ Lecture from 6.00pm.
Admission is free. Catering koha will be requested.
Space is limited so, to make sure of a place, please RSVP by close of business, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 to Anna.Henry@dia.govt.nz.