Richard Wolfe is an art, design and cultural historian whose 41 previous books include most recently ’Footprints on the Land: How Humans Changed New Zealand’. He has also written a large number of articles, covering diverse aspects of New Zealand art, history and popular culture. Kate Parsonson is a great-great-granddaughter of Thomas and Jane Edmonds who began researching for this book in 2018, curious to discover more about her family history, and the iconic Edmonds Cookery Book. This is her first book. Peter Alsop is a keen collector of New Zealand art and design, including vintage ephemera and hand-coloured photography. His 10 previous books include ’Selling the Dream’, ’Mauri Ora - Wisdom from the Maori World’ and ’Hand-Coloured New Zealand’.