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The ARANZ Lecture 2011

Alphabetically speaking ....Of Aliments, Archives and Authors.....

....and records, of course

How Dunnits from leading Kiwi Scribes at ARANZ Lecture

When: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 5.30p.m to 7pm.

Where: Weltec City Campus, Church Street, Wellington.

The ARANZ Lecture 2011 is a fine food festival, a cornucopia of coffee houses, critiques and catering. And, as usual, it's free.

Ace New Zealand authors are set to reveal their writers’ resource wizardry while they prepared 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 made blonde, Dutch immigrant, Suzy van der Kwast, founder of Wellington’s iconic "Suzy’s" 1960s coffee bar, 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 2011, is supported by the School of Hospitality and Catering, Wellington Institute of Technology (Weltec), Petone.

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.