The finalists in the Montana Book Awards include, The 10pm Question by Kate De Goldi which won the NZ Post Children’s Book Award.
Ladies A Plate: Traditional Home Baking by Alexa Johnston is a finalist in the Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture section. This is an intergenerational book. It’s full of recipes my mother used to make and I gave a copy to my daughter.
Another finalist in that section is The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand’s clinary History by Helen Leach (and yes, records show it was cooked in New Zealand before Australia).
The full list of finalists is here.
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I have Ladies: A Plate too. It was a gift from my mother. I think it’s the best baking book I have, and, ah… I have quite a few. The recipes are good, even great, but it’s the stories that go with them that warm my heart.
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