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Nina Finigan

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Nina is Curator Manuscripts at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum. She has a passion for finding the extraordinary in the everyday.

Images: supplied, image design: Tina Tiller

How recipes knit our past with our present

How a knitted yum cha feast pays tribute to the stories of generations of Cantonese New Zealand women.

By Nina Finigan | 6th October, 2023

Image: Archi Banal

What ever happened to dinner and a show?

Take a journey back to a night out in 1960s Tāmaki Makaurau, where toheroa soup, saxophones, sequins and spectacle reigned supreme.

By Nina Finigan | 23rd July, 2023

(Image: Tina Tiller)

The secret lives of recipes

Recipe books hold an abundance of knowledge, but they're nearly absent from our historical archives. Until now, anyway.

By Nina Finigan | 11th April, 2023