Helen Leach
Helen Leach is an anthropologist at the University of Otago who has studied food, eating, cooking, associated equipment and paraphernalia in New Zealand. Originally trained in archaeology, her interests range from prehistoric horticulture and the evolution of human diet [1] to the history of cooking, the origins of recipes as well as the development of kitchens and batteries de cuisine in the twentieth century. Her extensive collection of cookery books, especially community cookbooks, has provided a significant resource for colleagues' investigations [2] that compensated for the incompleteness of that of the National Library of New Zealand. Reviewing Leach's most recent book Kitchens, Barbara Santich observed that "New Zealanders are indeed fortunate to have Helen Leach as guide, guardian and safe-keeper of their gastronomic past",[3] noting too that the work was illustrated with images of artefacts from Leach's own personal collection.
Bibliography
- Kitchens: The New Zealand Kitchen in the 20th Century (2014)
- From Kai to Kiwi Kitchen (2011)[4]
- The Pavlova (2009)[5]
- Cultivating Myths (2000)[6]
- 1000 Years of Gardening in New Zealand (1984)[7]
- Prehistoric Men in Palliser Bay (1979)
- Subsistence Patterns in Prehistoric New Zealand (1969) [8]
References
- ↑ Oakes, Guy; Leach, Helen (2015). "Domestic Miss". In LIttle, Paul; NIssen, Wendyl. Stroppy Old Women. Auckland New Zealand: Paul Little Books. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-473-25860-3.
- ↑ Symons, Michael (2009). "From Modernity to Postmodernity: As Revealed in the Titles of New Zealand Recipe Books". Food and Foodways. doi:10.1080/07409710903356307.
- ↑ Santich, Barbara (February 2015). "Review of: Helen Leach: Kitchens: The New Zealand Kitchen in the 20th Century". Petit Propos Cuilinaire (102): 121–123. ISSN 0142-7857.
- ↑ Leach, edited by Helen M. (2010). From kai to Kiwi kitchen : New Zealand's culinary traditions and cookbooks. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press. ISBN 9781877372759.
- ↑ Leach, Helen (2008). The pavlova story : a slice of New Zealand's culinary history. Dunedin, N.Z.: Otago University Press. ISBN 9781877372575.
- ↑ Leach, Helen (2000). Cultivating myths : fiction, fact & fashion in garden history. Auckland, N.Z.: Godwit. ISBN 1869620496.
- ↑ Leach, Helen (1984). 1,000 Years of Gardening in New Zealand. Auckland: A.H. & A. W. Reed. ISBN 0-589-01488-9.
- ↑ Leach, H.M. (1969). Subsistence Patterns in Prehistoric N.Z. Anthropology Department University of Otago.