When the Sunday Star-Times asked New Zealanders to hunt out their old recipe books and share their family food memories, it opened a floodgate. It seems that most households have at least one favourite recipe or dish, memorable often not for its culinary sophistication, but for the rich associations between the food and the lives of those who prepared it... This collection of New Zealanders' family recipes and the stories behind them - many of which have been passed down through multiple generations - will simultaneously warm your heart and tantalise your taste buds. A mixture of historic photographes from treasured family albums and colour images of the much loved recipes completes the package...