Feb 29 2008
New Zealand Iconz
Kiwi on the loose was watching Kiwi Kitchen on TV just now and there they were in tonights programme looking at scones, picklets, corn beef and self saucing chocolate pudding. Very kiwi indeed! These NZ kiwiana iconz that most kiwis have grown up with and we will revisit sometime soon.. What all these recipes however had in common (excepting the corn beef ) was the good old EDMONDS COOK BOOK. We all grew up with it. Its just part of being a kiwi. When I bought my house a year ago I had a nostalgic period of purchasing NZ pottery and things that reminded me of my childhood like Lone Ranger, Bonanza and I Love Lucy dvds from the Warehouse. On Trademe I found a genuine old Edmonds Cookbook. I bought it and instantly placed it in the cupboard over the stove with a great feeling of coming home . Now it felt like home. I’d like to come back to this….its really Kiwi and in fact where ever I travel, I will take the Cookbook.
wow that reminds me of coming to the states I brought my edmonds cookbook with me.Actually it was one of the only 2 books I brought with me the other was the bible.Whats that song that Jackson Brown sings that talks about getting up going to work and then doing it again .The real heros are the ones that arent noticed .Not the allblacks or over here in usa the football players that are held up like Gods yet they are always getting in trouble for drugs ,wife beating,bla bla.I wil make a point of thanking my dad today for driving into town every saturday to take us to youth group and waiting for hours untill it was done and then doing it again and again without complaints.
Good on ya John. It gets a bit sickening the media and sports and the real heroes like your dad go unnoticed.
Shot mate.
I might send a link to your dad, hed have some good stories.
Keep writing.
G
And remember when dinner time was always 6 o’clock, and cheese toasted sandwhiches on Sunday evening, and Prawn Cocktails for me they are very ‘Kiwi”.