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The BBC Good Food Show Winter 23 - 27 November NEC, Birmingham is the perfect place to find everything you need for Christmas all under one roof.

With 21 years experience of putting together the country's biggest and best Food event, The Good Food Show offers a great festive day out.

Be inspired by top chefs live demo's - Some of TV's favourite foodie faces will be cooking live on stage on the Supertheatre sponsored by Sainsbury's.

Star names including James Martin, demonstrating an alternative Christmas Dinner, Rick Stein, John Torode and Gregg Wallace's will be creating his classic Christmas Pudding.

Christmas Theatre Get some great ideas for Christmas treats by taking a tasting session on this stage - alternatively pick up some fantastic tips for making your own treats including Christmas cookie Icing, marzipan fruit making and Christmas Cake Decorations.

British Theatre Enjoy the best of British chefs demonstrating with the best of British produce and pick up tips on how to make your Christmas truly local.

BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards To be held at the BBC Good Food Show Winter once again these "Oscars of the Food World" will celebrate the very best in British food and drink.

World Cheese Awards If you're planning on providing the most brilliant cheese board for your guests then where better to get inspiration from than the World Cheese Awards. Over 2500 different cheeses, that's 40 tonnes, will be judged by the worlds top cheese experts.

Shopping With over 400 exhibitors it's the perfect place to pick up gifts for your friends and family. With some fantastic producers' including Kelly's Turkeys, English Provender and Scotland Food and Drink, find something original for Christmas Day.

Marks and Spencer's Christmas Experience Marks and Spencer will be returning once again with an even bigger Christmas theatre – featuring top chefs including Michael Caines giving you tips and advice on how to make the most of your culinary skills this Christmas.

Drinks Stock up your drinks cabinet with a whole range of fantastic drinks suppliers from Glengoyne Whisky to Port from 'Spirits of the Place' or pick up something really different from Demijohns Liquid Deli.

MasterChef Experience See all your favourite MasterChef faces live on stage including John Torode, Gregg Wallace, Dhruv Baker and Tim Anderson and the newly crowned Celebrity MasterChef Champion - the perfect place to take any MasterChef fan for a pre-Christmas treat. Plus watch amateur cooks create their signature dishes live on stage to be judged by John and Gregg in the MasterChef Live Challenge sponsored by Plenty.

BBC Good Food Show showcasing British food from up and down the country

Following on from British Food Fortnight (17 September-2 October), the BBC Good Food Show will host the largest display of artisan and British producers in the country. From Aberdeenshire to Cornwall, exhibitors across the UK will display some of the very best food products Britain has to offer. With something for everyone, now is the time to book tickets and support the best of British.

At the BBC Good Food Show we are proud to promote the British food industry and to encourage small suppliers and artisan producers to display their products to tens of thousands of enthusiastic foodies.

Rachel Poletti-Gadd, Divisional Director

The British contingent at the Show is going to be bigger and from a wider area then ever before.

Some of the highlights include:

• Chillipepperpete from Brighton, chilli produce
• Cornish Cheese Co, from Cornwall bringing their 'World Cheese Award Supreme Champion' blue cheese
• Cotswold Gold, rapeseed oil, from Worcestershire
• Burts from Devon, crisps
• Alsop and Walker from East Sussex, cheese
• Jo Hilditch from Herefordshire, British cassis
• Doves Farm from Hungerford, Berkshire with their flour and bakery Items
• Bennett Opie Kent, condiments and pickles
• Woodhouse Farm Leicestershire, meat
• Belvoir Fruit Farm Lincolnshire, cordials
• Napton Water Buffalo Napton, Warwickshire, buffalo burgers
• Burley Fudge, New Forest, fudge
• Trees Can't Dance, Northumberland, chilli sauce
• Supreme Sausages, Oxfordshire, sausages
• Deans of Huntly, Scottish shortbread
• Snowdonia Cheese Co
• Ramans Kitchen from Yorkshire, chutney
• The Garlic Farm from the Isle of Wight bringing their range of garlic products

As well as masses of fantastic individual suppliers, there will also be a huge range of regional food groups and associations bringing the best they have to offer, including:

• Scotland Food and Drink
• True Taste of Wales
• Ludlow Food Festival
• Foodlovers Britain approved area
• Slow Food

Bursary Award Scheme

Following the success of last year's BBC Good Food Shows Bursary Award scheme, they are once again scouring the country to search for the very best small and artisan producers to reward with a free stand at the Show.
www.bbcgoodfoodshow.com