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Move over Edmonds Cookbook there’s a new kid on the block! Country Calendar Cookbook with Allyson Gofton has all the hallmarks of becoming a real Kiwi classic. For starters it’s a brilliant idea – revisiting some of the intrepid people who’ve appeared on our longest running local TV show over the years, writing their stories, and getting their favourite recipes some of which have been handed down through generations. Cooking doyen Allyson Gofton, along with a photographer and writer, travelled throughout the motu from high country farms, orchards, vineyards, and remote coastal settlements to produce the goodies for the book, adding some of her own favourite recipes to the mix.
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The Mana Story by Derek Fox (Celebrating over 100 issues of Mana)
I still remember when we published Mana number one. We were pretty chuffed with ourselves.
It was just before Christmas 1992 and we had just produced this 100-page colour glossy magazine telling Maori stories; stories we’d chosen and written and told in our way – nobody got to question us or tell us what to write or how to write it – there were no gatekeepers, just us.
It was heady stuff.
Mana is and always has been privately owned, there are no grants or subsidies or Sponsors, drat it! Back then we paid for it out of our own pockets. We knew we had to attract advertisers as well as readers in order to survive. I recall shortly after number one came out, running into a woman who was in the advertising industry and proudly handing her a copy and asking if she’d like to take space in the next one for her clients.
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