Festive Food for the Holiday Season

It’s approaching that time of year. After slaving away at the gym all winter long, desperate to shave those extra pounds for summer, the season of overeating is descending upon us.

Christmas Dinner, 1962 by KeteScape is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ License

The matter is not helped by the vast assortment of Christmas cooking books flying onto the shelves. Check out some of our latest Christmas entertaining and recipe books, guaranteed to convert the most headstrong Grinch among us:

• Celebrating Christmas by Australian Women’s Weekly.
• Gizzie’s Season’s Eatings by Gizzi Erskine.
• Homemade Christmas
• Jamie Oliver’s Christmas Cookbook by Jamie Oliver.
• The Hairy Biker’s 12 Days of Christmas by Dave Myers and Si King.
• Carbs by Numbers by Sandra Dunbar.

 

Find more Christmas cookery in our catalogue.

Search our databases and eResources for further inspiration and turn your kitchen into a frenzy of festivity this December:

• The Culinary Arts Collection offers up some interesting tidbits.
• Check out the Good Housekeeping Christmas Cookbook on Zinio.
• Our Christmas for Kids page is full of ideas and recipes to keep Santa’s little helpers entertained.

What mouth-watering, diet-shattering Christmas treats will you be dishing up this holiday season?

eResource Spotlight – Britannica Library

I’ve decided to give everyone a little run through on some of the eResources we have on offer at CCL that I’m in charge of knowing about at my library, to help let people know about some of the great databases we have access to.

One of the collections I am in charge of knowing about is Britannica Library, which is a great place for research into a huge array of subjects (history, geography, science etc). There are 3 separate versions of the website; Adults, Teens and Children. The website and information is formatted and catered to those age groups. A brilliant tool for kids’ homework, teenage assignments and adult research.

The adult collection includes:

• Articles that can be read by the online narrator;
• An interactive world atlas;
• Biographies searchable by era, nationality and what they are known for;
• A country comparison tool;
• Thousands of images, videos and audio files;
• Latest news headlines that include coverage from the New Zealand Herald;
• Te Ara — The Encyclopedia of New Zealand;
• Tools to email, cite and print.

Ben
The Library at Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre