CheeseFest '08

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When:

Wed 5 Mar ’08, 5:00pm–8:00pm

Where: SkyCity Convention Centre, 88 Federal St, Auckland CBD Show map

Website:

www.nzsca.org.nz

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The 2008 Cuisine NZ Champions of Cheese Awards goes public again with CheeseFest '08, an exciting event held at the SKYCITY Convention Centre from 5 - 8pm on Wednesday March 5th 2008.

For a modest fee of $35, CheeseFest attendees will be able to sample over 400 of NZs finest specialty cheeses in the 2008 Cuisine NZ Champions of Cheese Awards accompanied by a complimentary glass of wine and glass of Taylor's Port.

We have two pairs of tickets to this prestigious food event for our Eventfinder friends. To be in to win, please share with us a little poem telling us how you feel about cheese. It's near to our heart and, surely, near to yours as well. Just drop your verse into the Comments section below and we'll pick the two most creative poets to attend with their favourite cheese-eating friend.

Cuisine food editor Lauraine Jacobs says that "with hundreds of speciality cheeses from all over New Zealand, CheeseFest will be the ultimate taste experience. People can sample the smallest artisan products to the best export grade cheddars - the biggest collection of New Zealand cheeses ever assembled in one room".

Individual stations will feature the ever popular cheddars, blue cheeses, bries, Dutch style cheeses, goats and sheep milk cheeses, washed rind cheeses and of course the award-winning cheeses from the 2008 Cuisine NZ Champions of Cheese Awards announced the previous evening.

For the first time, the cheeses will also be on sale for people to take home and enjoy. Members of the New Zealand Specialist Cheese Makers Association will be on hand to introduce and answer any questions the public may have about their cheeses.

A cash bar is available to purchase other wines to match with cheeses. Non-alcoholic beverages are also available.

Event listed by Tony Goode

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Content Editor 4 years ago

Well - what can we say?
The promoters thought your entries were so great they have given us three pairs of tickets to give away instead of two!
So congratulations to:
- sassySC for your hardcase poem sung to the tune of 'Hair'
- Diane Clark
- enyada
We're so sorry we couldn't give you all tickets - you really did write some great poems.
Stay tuned for the next competition on Eventfinder - you could be the next big winner!
Cheers,
Gina @ Eventfinder
titan1 4 years ago

Cheers to cheese, and if our friends at eventfinder please, free tickets thanks
Cheers to cheese, New Zealand's finest will compete and vie to tantalise our sense's and please us best
Cheers to cheese, savoury, pungent or sublime I love them all especially the ones matured over time
So versatile, the cheesemakers gifts, from appetiser to perfect meals end, from start to finish I say again cheese and cheers from my friend
Sab Rooster 4 years ago

I’m quite a sleaze around bloody good cheese
And I can’t wait for my cheese-eating friend and I
To win the complimentary we’ll pop on by
To experience specialty cheese on mass
It’s a dream come true and alas
We’ll need these tickets of a sort
To score our complimentary Taylor’s port
Mingling, sniffing, tasting, whiffing all the cheeses
Over four hundred if you please
Is smelly, strong, hard or pong
Runny, blue, soft or true
I’ll get on my knees for a bloody good cheese
And I can’t wait for my cheese-eating friend and I ..
We just can’t let this pass us by
sassySC 4 years ago

She asks me why
I'm just a cheesy guy
I'm cheesy noon and night
Cheese is such delight
I'm cheesy high and low
Don't ask me why
Cos I don't know
If there’s a lack of bread
Eat it with a cracker instead
Darling
Gimme wine with cheese
Hard beautiful cheese
Crumbly, oozing,
Salty, holey, waxen
Give me it up to here cheese
With ham on a baguette
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy
Cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese
Heat it, can’t beat it
Long as I can eat it
My cheese
eleask 4 years ago

Start Them Young:
Cheese if you please,
My 10 month old is excited by the taste
Cheese if you please,
She can hardly wait.
The home of the cheese,
It is the big tall box in the kitchen called the fridge,
Cheese if you please Mummy,
My favourite,
I LOVE CHEESE
enyada 4 years ago

Chunky Crumbly Holy or Mouldy
Spread it, Slice it, Grate it, Mold it
Smell it, Taste it, Feel it, Fold it
Is there nothing more interesting as
Delictably Appealing blue Vein
Divinely Acceptable as Colby
Deliciously Crumbly as Tasty
Smooth and Subtle as camebert or brie
Dust off your platters, roll out your knives
Cheese is on the menu tonight!!!!!
Judy Klaus 4 years ago

Cheese is the bees knees. You ask me how, then ask the cow.
First, the clover, then the rye, is turned to milk in true style.
The cow eats the grass, the grass turns to milky cream
Then with the aid of some help – it turns into a cheesy dream.
The curds and whey are made from hay. Ask the secret you possibly may
But every one has a recipe to keep and then of course there is cheese from sheep.
There’s goat and horse and deer no doubt too but for my sense of taste the cow will do.
From camembert to cottage cheese, just give me cheese, lots of cheese, please, please, please.
Judy Klaus 4 years ago

Cheese is the bees knees. You ask me how, then ask the cow.
First, the clover, then the rye, is turned to milk in true style.
The cow eats the grass, the grass turns to milky cream
Then with the aid of some help – it turns into a cheesy dream.
The curds and whey are made from hay. Ask the secret you possibly may
But every one has a recipe to keep and then of course there is cheese from sheep.
There’s goat and horse and deer no doubt too but for my sense of taste the cow will do.
From camembert to cottage cheese, just give me cheese, lots of cheese, please, please, please.
ellieb 4 years ago

mmm Cheese on my red lips
Settle on my lovely lady hips
White wine to help make a great evening
Also leaves my face beaming
Please don't let me miss out
On your wonderful cheese shout
Esther 4 years ago

Imagine a world without cheese.
No one would feel at ease,
Get out your havarti and feta
And the party is better
The crowds all shout more please!
Esther and Julie the Cheese Fanatics
Paula McGregor 4 years ago

The 5th March 2008, place it in my diary please, and we won't be late!
I'm sure it will be an evening of taste, please let us go, or it will be such a waste!
My hubby and I snack on cheese every night, we relish the flavours and enjoy every bite.
So thank you Eventfinder.co.nz, I hope we can celebrate with a glass of red.
My plee is all done, Thanks! It's been so much of fun!
Heatherj 4 years ago

Ahhh Cheeses, they really pleases
cheese always cheers me up no matter what
choose me for the tickets and I will not stop
until every cheese has hit the spot
Queen D 4 years ago

'Tis I, I'm named Di, and on curds I rely
and I thrive on a great chunk of cheese,
whether edam or brie, gruyere or colby,
Di'd like to win tickets - yes please!
Bob Carlton 4 years ago

For you cheese fans out there, we have two pairs of tickets to this great Kiwi event. Just let us have a little poem or verse about your love of cheese and you'll be in to win. Enter your best verse about your curd-ish passion and we'll pick the winners.