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times, they were prepping for parties – sitting for hours and hours cooking and chopping. We must have made thousands of club sandwiches, lamingtons, cream puffs and sausage rolls over the years for someone's birthday or a wedding anniversary." Natalie was born and raised in Central Auckland. With her family's passion for food she has long experience in hospitality, including establishing several corporate café's and function venues. Following her passion for food, and in honour of her Gran, Natalie self-published her first book Gran's Kitchen – Recipes from the notebooks of Dulcie May Booker, which was released in 2009, which coincided with the opening of her food store in Mt Eden called Dulcie May Kitchen. The store has won numerous awards including 'Best Cake Shop' in Metro magazine and in 2010 was voted one of the Top 50 Cafés and awarded Best Pressed Sandwiches in Metro magazine. Her first and second book have also won her two Gournmand book awards in Europe as well as Natalie been named a finalist in the Bloom 2011 Her Businesswomen of the Year Award. She is joined in the shop by her sister, Michelle Burrell, who has worked as a chef for 18 years, and brings her ability to create traditional recipes with a modern flair. Her father Ashley Burrell, who has been in hospitality for a number of years, works as a chef at Dulcie May Kitchen, as well as her mother Heather, who has a passion for life, people and food. "Happiness and celebration go hand-in-hand with the preparation, sharing and eating of food," Natalie writes. "Food and love are made to be shared and experience tells me that both are best when shared everyday." www.dulciemaykitchen.com There is renewed appetite for knowing what goes into the food we eat and where it comes from. So what better way than to grow your own fruit and vegetables or to buy seasonal produce from local markets and roadside stalls and then create your own jams, pickles, pestos and pre- serves? To help you get underway, Rural Women New Zealand members have a new book out, 'A Good Harvest', published by Random House, which tells you how to grow all manner of fruits and veg- etables and what to do with them once you've produced your bumper crop. The contributors share the pleasures of growing their own produce and going on to fill jars and bottles with tasty, colourful, home-made treats to enjoy long after the harvest is over. Practical, easy-to-use and dependable, the recipes include chutneys, jams, pickles, pestos, marinades and sauces, cakes, drinks and more. There are step-by-step instructions on bottling, jam making and other preserving methods as well as handy hints, often passed down through the generations or extracted from well-thumbed, hand-written notebooks. A Good Harvest is a companion volume to A Good Spread, a collection of tried and true family favourite recipes, also pro- duced by Rural Women New Zealand. Extracts reprinted with permission from Dulcie May Kitchen: Everyday by Natalie Oldfield. Printed by HarperCollins (New Zealand) Ltd, RRP $44.99. Both books are available from www.ruralwomen.org.nz or in bookshops