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.