My initial documentation of the Cookbook comes from a personal analysis of my own copy. Handed down to me from my family, my cookbook contains memories of countless hours spent in the kitchen trying to master the art of the afghan, my Dad's pikelets and banana cake triumphs and a supposedly simple one egg chocolate sponge. The intangible memories are made tangible through the presence of stains upon the pages; my analysis included the recording of these stains (see Cornelia Parker 'Tarnish' series) in order to reveal the collective memory of the Cookbook through the realisation of form. Therefore recontextualising the Edmonds Cookbook from my own experience into a cultural artifact of New Zealand.
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