We’ve writ­ten before about the Food Show and how it’s basic­ally Rex Man­ning Day for people who like to try lots of food and taste a lot of wine.

If you’re look­ing for ways to fire up your cre­at­ive juices in the kit­chen, look no fur­ther. The Food Show Wel­ling­ton is on at West­pac Sta­di­um from 26 – 28 May, and it’s bring­ing everything you need to turn your­self from unin­spired and unenthused to culin­ary geni­us.

Start off with a live cook­ing demon­stra­tion from one of New Zealand’s top celebrity cooks, where you’ll pick up a host of tips and tricks for cre­at­ing beau­ti­ful food at home. This year, the inter­na­tion­ally renowned Anna­bel Lang­bein will be at the Wel­ling­ton event for the first time, present­ing recipes from her new book Essen­tial Anna­bel Lang­bein.

Next you can explore the show’s vast array of exhib­it­ors, show­cas­ing everything you’ll need to take what you’ve learned in the cook­ing theatre and make it a real­ity. There will be beau­ti­ful cheeses, grass fed Angus beef, hand­made dump­lings and black gar­lic as well as pret­zel crisps, deluxe hot chocol­ate, fudge, ice cream – and everything in between. Plus, you can find great deals on kit­ch­en­ware to help you bring it all togeth­er!

I remem­ber in pre­vi­ous years I have been a massive doucheca­noe and said “don’t take your prams to the show gosh” but cut­ting out kids would also mean mar­gin­al­ising par­ents (pre­dom­in­antly moth­ers), so I apo­lo­gise. In fact, I think next week­end is also actu­ally Mother­’s Day, and) (okay so I got my week­ends mixed up but… if the mater­nal fig­ure in your life likes to eat a vari­ety of things and taste a lot of wine, maybe it would be an ideal out­ing for you togeth­er. Our advice from 2006 (oh my stars we’re old) about wear­ing com­fort­able shoes and try­ing everything still stands.

But we said we had a giveaway, so let’s do that! Leave us a com­ment below about the one thing you’re most look­ing for­ward to sampling, and go into the draw to win a double pass val­id for any of the three days. Get your entry in before 5pm Wed­nes­day May 17, and we’ll draw it that night so you still have time to take Fri­day 26th off work for a less crowded exper­i­ence, or of course you could go on Sat­urday or Sunday as well.

EDIT: We’re now giv­ing away a hamper as well!

We have a Food Show prize pack to give away worth $115, includ­ing a double pass to attend the show and a good­ie bag filled with deli­cious treats, includ­ing: Pure Del­ish Pas­sion­fruit Crunch Ancient Grain-Ola, Taha Nat­ur­al As Spark­ling Ton­ic, J.Friend and Co Wild­flower Squeezy Bottle, Chant­al Organ­ics Ginger Zest Grainola,Chantal Organ­ics Whole Pea­nut But­ter, New World Sis­tema Snaplock Con­tain­er, New World 2017 Cal­en­dar, Prop­er Crisps, West Coast Cocoa and even some­thing for the dog, K9 Nat­ur­al Beef Feast Top­pers.