I’ll be honest with you – the Food Show is one of the highlights of my year, one of the most hotly anticipated dates on my calendar. This year was my fourth consecutive visit and over the years I’d honed my techniques, which included bringing a backpack and staying to the very end on Sunday to maximise last-minute price slashes on purchases that would already have been a bargain.
Some highlights from this year include:
Kohu Road Ice Cream: Normally I’m quite a snob when it comes to ice cream, I much prefer to make my own and lean towards thinking that no bought ice cream can compare to the flavour of home-made. Kohu Road’s incredible range made me question my commitment to this opinion. Their ice cream comes in beautiful flavours like golden syrup, bergamot, and strawberry, and I visited and revisited their stand several times to sample them all.
Contact: info@kohuroad.co.nz
Wright Sprouts: These are the sprout lover’s sprouts. I admire the Wright Sprout company for taking something that isn’t necessarily an instantly desirable sounding product, then sticking with it, and doing it well. These organic sprouts are deliciously crunchy and nutty and perfect for strewing through salads or just munching out of the bag when snacking is required but you don’t want to end up absorbing a trillion calories.
Contact the lovely Katrina at: katrina@wrightsprouts.co.nz
Canaan Cheese: There’s not much I can say about this company’s products because I’ll be too busy drooling to talk. Simply the very, very best yoghurt I’ve ever tasted – and I’ve tasted yoghurt all over the world – plus faint-makingly delicious halloumi, which was fried and offered to us by the delightful people running the stand. I ended up buying about four containers of yoghurt plus a slab of halloumi, and I wish now that I’d bought more. Words cloud the issue, just go out, find this stuff – you won’t look back.
Contact: Sales@CanaanCheeses.co.nz
For more products and information, plus more sycophantic raving over the Canaan Cheese, please read the post I did on my own blog, Hungry and Frozen, by clicking —-> HERE.
For those of you lucky enough to attend the Auckland Food Festival, I hope you enjoy it – I hear it’s usually the biggest one in the country. If any readers went to the Wellington Food Show I’d love to hear your thoughts – what was the best thing you ate on the day?
Peace,
Laura
Hey, I tried the wonderful Kohu Road ice cream at local supermarket tasting spot and, also inspired by your W’ton Food Show reconnaissance, promptly bought 2 containers on the spot – didn’t even look at the price. Chose the vanilla and the chocolate -and will definitely buy again – next time I’ll hide them from the 18 year old.