Cooking Fiesta

Organised by the Gisborne Floral Festival Society, the Cooking Fiesta staged in the War Memorial Hall was a pronounced success.

Various "food courts" were on display and demonstrations of cooking from other lands were given throughout the three-day showing.

Elizabeth Marsden makes an attractive model in the Maori court.

Mrs A. Meng Yee and Hoy Chung cooking delicious Chinese chow mein.

Mrs M. V. Essautier explains the method for making Gazpacho a superb cold soup from Spain.

Mrs L. Grey shows how to make the most of avocados, a tropical fruit.

Mesdames M. Moore and J. Weir enjoy some of the avocado spread which is being served by Heather Grey.

Raymond Weir and Valerie and Gary Moore all agreed the spread was good

Gregory and Allan Fisher reckoned the lollipip tree was O.K.

Brett and Pare Keiha, and Kaye and Rina McGhee came along to see what was what

Mrs Marie Wagner and daughters Gabriel and Sue-Ellen stop to admire the ginger-bread house

Karen and Shelley Harris stop by the ginger-bread house too

Mrs M. Owen and Josephine, and Mesdames B. Felton and W. Keith admiring the novelty party sweets...

...made by Mesdames J. Gunn and R. Houlahan for display

The Gisborne Photo News