SCULPTURE ON THE PENINSULAR

Every second year Annie and I attend Sculpture on the Peninsular a charity fund-raising event held at Loudon Homestead on Banks Peninsular half an hour west of Christchurch.
The latest rendition of this event, with almost 200 sculptures for sale, was held last weekend under sunny skies and Canterbury folk turned out in record numbers ensuring that a handsome sum was raised for Cholmondeley School which provides quality respite care for children aged 3 - 12 years.

Loudon Homestead is owned by Sarah Lovell-Smith and Philip King. Philip of course manages and part owns UBS Canterbury the excellent bookstore on campus at the University of Canterbury and at each Sculpture on the Peninsular event an impressive temporary bookstore is set up on site at Loudon. Once I had enjoyed a three hour sculptural walk, (my favourite was Peter Lange's ampersand, pic left), through the grounds including wandering under the 150 year old oaks and sampling a Brew Moon beer I headed back to the totally seductive albeit temporary bookstore where among the hundreds of titles on display I found a most interesting and impressive local publication, HARBOUR KITCHENS.

Harbour Kitchens: celebrating Lyttelton, its food and people
Published by the Combined Lyttelton Schools Charitable Trust
ISBN 978-0-473-15695-4
www.harbourkitchens.org.nz

Harbour Kitchens is a cook book - and more. Incorporating recipes, anecdotes, kids’ art and gorgeous colour photography – it is a portrait of the vibrant and diverse community that is Lyttelton.
Over 150 recipes were collected from local residents: including parents, business people, artists, writers, and prominent chefs. Softbound and printed in colour throughout, the book is divided into four seasonal themes.
Local photographers Dean MacKenzie, Jason Larraman, Frank Visser and Maree Henry have contributed images which capture the spirit of this unique town which we wandered around very happily for several hours over the weekend.

From memory the book cost me $35 and I must say that as far as community/school fund-raising cook books go this is one of the finest I have ever seen. Truly it is hard to believe it has not been published by a major book publisher.

I note the following information from inside the book:
Printed by Maxim Print, Christchurch.
Cover photograph by Dean Mackenzie.
Graphic design by TimeZoneOne - www.timezoneone.com

Congratulations to everyone concerned on a fine publication which is also crammed with mouth-watering recipes from across the entire cooking range from toffee apples, roasted nectarine chutney, lemonade scones, braised shanks of lamb with parsnip puree to raspberry and almond cake and everything in between.
Beautiful full colour photography throughout. A gem.