David Burton (right) is best known as the Dominion Post's restaurant critic but has written six books, three of them on culinary history. 200 Years of New Zealand Food & Cookery (recently reissued as David Burton’s New Zealand Food & Cookery) won the AW Reed Memorial Book Award for 1982, while The Raj At Table: A Culinary History of the British in India (Faber & Faber, 1993) appeared in British, American, Spanish and Indian editions. French Colonial Cookery (Faber & Faber, 2002) was translated into French and won four World Gourmet Cookbook Awards.
Linda Burgess (left) has been a full-time writer since 1997. She's the author of 3 novels, a collection of short stories and a travel memoir, as well as a book on New Zealand's historic houses. She's been runner-up in both the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award and the Sunday Star Times short story award, and was Massey University's Writer in Residence in 1997. She's a book and film reviewer and since 2003 has been the DomPost's Monday TV reviewer.When: Monday April 30th
Where: The Thistle Inn, Thorndon, Wellington (near the Railway Station).
Time: 7.30 but come at 7 pm to meet in the bar for drinks
Cost- NZSA members $3 non-members $5
New Zealand Society of Authors Wellington