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The Symposium of Australian Gastronomy in Holiday Mood 

Report on the Wellington Symposium of Australian Gastronomy in Petits Propos Culinaires, 67, 2001.

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"...the 11ath Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, which was held in Wellington (New Zealand), 16-18 March 2001... [t]he strange numbering of the '11ath Symposium' comes from Wellington filling an unusually long gap between the Hobart symposium in 1999 and another in Adelaide in February-March 2002. Finding himself in New Zealand, the founder of the symposia, Michael Symons, got together with venerated cookery writer, Lois Daish, one of a small number of New Zealand symposiasts over the years. Along with writer David Burton and bookshop manager Laura Kroetsch, they gave themselves less than two months to organize a relatively spontaneous, intimate event, with an eventual 41 participants slipping into, according to the sub-title, 'holiday mood'.