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Kōrero: Eating

1970s dinner party

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1970s dinner party

Evening dinner parties are a way of offering family, friends and new acquaintances food-based hospitality. The unforgettable cover of Jacqueline Steincamp's Party planning (1973) shows a convivial dinner party.

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Whitcoulls

Reference: Jacqueline Steincamp, Party planning. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1973

by Harry Ruffell

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Kerryn Pollock, Eating – Families and hospitality, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/38608/1970s-dinner-party (accessed 30 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 20 November 2012.