Eat Pacific
The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook
Compiled by award-winning chef, judge and TV host Robert Oliver, Eat Pacific includes 139 zesty recipes from Fiji, Sāmoa, the Kingdom of Tonga, the Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Niue, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea, taken from the popular TV series Pacific Island Food Revolution, now in its third season.
There’s more than healthy, tasty, affordable food, however. This book has a powerful health and food-sovereignty message: local food cultures hold the key to better diets, economic sustainability and combatting diseases such as diabetes and obesity.
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About the editor
Robert Oliver is a New Zealand chef who was raised in Fiji and Sāmoa.
Old Black Cloud
A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand
Mental depression is a serious issue in contemporary New Zealand, and it has an increasingly high profile. But during our history, depression has often been hidden under a long black cloud of denial that we have not always lived up to the Kiwi ideal of being pragmatic and have not always coped.
Using historic patient records as a starting place, and informed by her own experience of depression, academic Jacqueline Leckie’s timely social history of depression in Aotearoa analyses its medical, cultural and social contexts through an historical lens. From detailing its links to melancholia and explaining its expression within Indigenous and migrant communities, this engrossing book interrogates how depression was medicalised and has been treated, and how New Zealanders have lived with it.
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About the author
Jacqueline Leckie is a researcher and writer based in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
Massey University Press is giving away a copy of these two books to the alumni whānau. To go into the draw, please email us your name, address, and the book title you’re interested in by Sunday, July 14 at 11.59pm. This offer is limited to readers of our newsletter with New Zealand addresses. A condition of entry is we will publish the winners’ names on our social media pages and/or in our next newsletter.
You can check out the Press’ other terrific books at www.masseypress.ac.nz.
We’re thrilled to announce that Christina Nafatali and Catherine Lythe are the lucky winners of our April/May newsletter’s book giveaways. A big thank you to everyone who participated. Stay tuned for more exciting giveaways in our newsletters.