This month we hear an interview by heritage collections specialist Jane Wild, who last year caught up with Alexa Johnston for a chat about the history and hero's of the Edmonds Cookery Book through the ages.
Check out this 1910 edition on Kura Heritage Collections
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/rarebooks/id/7164/rec/1
Items can be viewed in the Heritage Collections reading room, Level 2 of Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library.
Also see Kura Heritage Collections Online kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz
and search for rare books and printed material using the Auckland Libraries general catalogue https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/
Food for Thought exhibition at Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero, Central City Library, 28 September 2020 – 14 February 2021
This exhibition celebrates the role food plays in family, belonging and culture with stories of Auckland life from kitchen table to restaurant banquet.
It includes a feast of material from Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections’ rare books, manuscripts, menus, posters and oral histories.