Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

..."Collection of simple basic recipes covering most of the foods and methods used by ancient Māori, adapted to modern equipment and incorporating the European foods they adopted during the 19th century". Photographs. References.

A Māori of Hokio, near Levin, recorded as saying that an esteemed method of cooking eels was to wrap them in kanono (Coprosma grandifolia) or rangiora. It is recorded that a state of euphoria is produced by eating eels cooked in this way.