PRESSRELEASE: A gourmet's paradise at the Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre

Wine, Food and Good Living offers delights for all the senses. A wider spectrum of delicacies and information on innovations and phenomena than ever before will be on show. The roughly 1 500 square metre display area will host a wide variety of stage shows, interesting lectures and instruction in cookery. Hundreds of wines are available for tasting in the wine area. Tasty titbits to take home can be found at the numerous gourmet markets.

Fun and food for thought for the gourmet

The diversity of visitors has been taken into account in the programme. The Puustelli&Gaggenau Demonstration Kitchen and lecture hall programme together with the various programmes put on by the different departments provide a broad overview of innovations and themes of current interest in the field. The demonstration kitchen host, Kari Aihinen , will guide visitors through the secrets of Spanish cuisine 24-26.10. Wine experts will take the measure of each other on 25.10. in the Torres Quiz Master wine contest. New things about wine and food will be discovered round the adults' wine-trick-track. The Torino well-being pasta kitchen, the Sunday gingerbread factory and the sushi school offer things to do for all the family.

Lecture themes include olive oil tasting, the wines of the French Rhône district, combining wine and chocolate as well as lectures on the themes Wine and food for the traveller in France and Travel Trends 2009.

Johanna Oras chooses the Vuoden keittokirja 2008

The winner of Suomen Messusäätiös Vuoden keittokirja 2008 will be announced at the Puustelli&Gaggenau Demonstration kitchen at 14.30 on 23.10. Finalists are Markko Koskinen's and Christer Lindgren's Passione - intohimona italialainen keittiö (Passione - a passion for Italian Cuisine) (Otava), Miika Pölkki's and Heikki Valkama's Umami Japanilainen ruokkakulttuuri (Umami Japanese Food Culture) (Teos) and Ulla Svenski's Unelmakakut (Dream-cakes) (Otava). Vuoden keittokirja will be chosen by Johanna Oras.

Wine, food and the Good Living will be held at the same time as the Helsinki Book Fair. Held for the first time last year, the combination of events drew nearly 69 000 visitor over four days.

Further information

Sari Viljanen , Viinilehti Oy, gsm 050-592 8764, e-mail sari.viljanen@viinilehti.fi , www.viinilehti.fi ,
Suomen Messut, tiedottaja Vilja Perttola , gsm 040-755 3319, e-mail vilja.perttola@finnexpo.fi

Wine, Food and Good Living. Wine, food and Good Living is the field's biggest consumer event in Finland. It is held annually in conjunction with the Helsinki Book Fair and is organised by the Finnish Fair Corporation and Viinilehti Oy.