Lydia WeversLydia Wevers

Professor Lydia Wevers is director of Victoria University of Wellington’s Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies and co-chair of the University’s Enriching National Culture area of academic focus.

From Chesdale to camembert: how cheese helped shape NZ identity

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A new public discussion series explores the link between primary products – dairy, meat, wine and wool – and New Zealand national identity. Victoria University’s Prof Lydia Wevers introduces the series. Every Kiwi baby-boomer remembers having to drink quarter-pint bottles of warm milk at playtime, which at my school had been left outside on the … Read more