Rewena and Rabbit Stew The Rural Kitchen in Aotearoa, 1800–1940

A look through the kitchen window into early rural life in Aotearoa.

Katie Cooper grew up on a small sheep farm just out of Gore and is the daughter of an agriculture teacher and a history teacher. She completed her PhD in history at the University of Otago, and since 2016 has been a curator at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Katie’ s research focus is the social and material history of nineteenth-century New Zealand, and she has been working to highlight women’ s histories in Te Papa’ s collections.