Cooking The Books
Upstairs Function Room, Gothenburg
21 Grantham St, Hamilton
Saturday 27 August
12.30pm
Cook book writers and food reviewers Emma Galloway, Alexa Johnston, Bev Wood and Denise Irvine will discuss their insights and ideas about food writing. Chair Gail Pittaway will ask our food writers to talk about how they get commissioned to write about food, wine, and related topics, and how they approach this job. Writing about food is writing about essential things of life; nourishment, conviviality and pleasure. But it's also about planning, economy, making do and invention, which are also essential human skills. Good food writing is good writing, not just lists and tips. It gives us insights into ways other people live, think and observe, so it broadens our perspective.
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Emma Galloway is a former chef, food photographer and creator of the multi-award winning food blog My Darling Lemon Thyme. Her work has featured on Oprah.com, The Kitchn, Food & Wine, Huffington Post, Food 52, SBS Food, and in The Guardian, Delicious, Peppermint magazine, Taste.com and Taste magazine (NZ). Mydarlinglemonthyme.com was named the winner of the People’s Choice award in Kidspots Voices of 2013 blog awards and in April 2014 won the Best Original Recipes Award in the much coveted Saveur Best Food Blog Awards. Her first cookbook MY DARLING LEMON THYME was published in 2014, followed by A YEAR IN MY REAL FOOD KITCHEN in 2016. Emma's photo credit- Tracie Heasman.
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Alexa Johnston's four cookery books Ladies, a Plate: traditional home baking; A Second Helping: more from Ladies, a Plate; What’s for Pudding? and Ladies, a Plate: jams and preserves pay tribute to the skills of earlier generations of home bakers and she makes and tests all the recipes for her books – and takes all the photographs – in her home kitchen in Auckland. She has just finished a complete rewrite of the Edmonds Sure-to-Rise Cookery Book which will be published in September 2016.
Bev Wood has had a regular wine column “Wood on Wine” in the Hamilton Press. In addition to her wine interests, Bev has had a range of articles published in the Waikato Times, NZ Herald, Next Magazine, a story on Radio NZ, stories & poems in the NZ School Journal, the NSW School Mag, Takahe and NZ Memories.
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Denise Irvine works as a freelancer after spending most of her career as a feature writer at the Waikato Times. She writes a weekly food column called Dine, published in the newspaper’s Your Weekend magazine, and online. Denise has enjoyed watching and reporting on the growth of the Waikato’s eateries, artisan producers, and food markets. She is a member of Foodwriters NZ and has won the organisation’s Culinary Quill Award for food journalism three times.
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You are encouraged to come for drinks and refreshments before the event or stay for lunch at Gothenburg afterwards. This event is supported by Nourish magazine and Poppies Bookshop with books for sale and signing. This is a free event and you do not need to book. It is likely to be popular so we suggest you arrive early.
