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Cooking on a hangi
Dining at the Chateau Tongariro
Takapuna beer garden
Eating pizza in Queenstown
Collecting seafood, Gisborne
Eating toheroa fritters
Collecting shellfish at Muriwai
Picnicking on the West Coast
Taking tea in the trenches
Teachers take a tea break
Railway workers take a smoko break
Fuelling a lighthouse coal range
Railway buffet car
Sorting peas
The backyard garden
Apple picking
Grocery shopping
Sound: Aunt Daisy's beetroot chutney recipe
Sound clip: fast lunches
Sound: Aunt Daisy's cornflour blancmange