An entertaining and informative history of New Zealand kitchens and cookery, told through artifacts, gadgets and ephemera that tell a story that goes deeper than the objects themselves.This is not a cookbook, but it is a book about cooking.It's a rummage through New Zealand's culinary past via a hundred everyday objects from the Kiwi kitchen. It's a fossick through the pantries and cake tins and drawers of our heritage. There are delicious morsels of trivia, failed attempts...

An entertaining history of rural life in Aotearoa, told through artefacts, gadgets and ephemera that tell a story that goes deeper than the objects themselves.The most fun you'll ever have learning about rural life in New Zealand. Told through a varied selection of items from the everyday (apples, Red Band gumboots, milk tankers and ride-on mowers) to the weird and wacky (Godfrey Bowen's pink Long Johns, the Waimate White Horse and wartime tanks made from converted tractors) this b...