Get ready to pick those green walnuts soon if you are wishing to enter the second Grand New Zealand Pickled Walnut Competition to be judged during March 2010.
In 2008 our first winner, Ngaroma Ngata of Tolaga Bay, took home the winner’s trophy and a runners up certificate.
Jan MacKenzie, of Christchurch, with her ‘Jan’s Jungle’ pickled walnuts
was the other runner-up.
Overall there were 23 entries forwarded from all parts of New Zealand.
The second Grand Pickled Walnut Competition
run by the New Zealand Walnut Industry Group
is to be held in conjunction with the
New Zealand Tree Crops Association’s National Conference
to be held at the Sudima Hotel, Christchurch, Canterbury
Thursday 25th – Sunday 28th March 2010
A special dinner on Friday 26th March as part of ‘Taste of Canterbury’
will feature the Pickled Walnut Competition entries and the winners will be presented with their awards.
The judge for this event is well known food writer and food identity, Mavis Airey, who will speak at the ‘Taste of Canterbury’ dinner and present the awards.
Entry form and competition information is also available on
the NZTCA Conference 2010 website www.treecrops.org.nz
Hi there, were can i buy pickled walnuts from?