Wellington On a Plate 2024
This August is Wellington on a Plate, a whole month of culinary goodness! Feed your mind and appetite with literary cookbooks, culinary kids' movies, and food-themed picture books!
Continue your Wellington on a Plate celebrations at the library!
What is Wellington on a Plate?
Wellington on a Plate is an event in August where you can "Eat, Drink and Be Welly" by taking part in the largest food festival in Wellington. This year’s theme goes against the grain, where you are invited to “Play with Your Food”. You can expect interactive elements or “surprise and delight” moments.
Burger Wellington also returns from 5 - 25 August, where you can taste and rate all the burger goods across three delicious weeks. The only question that remains: who will be crowned with burger glory?
How can you celebrate?
Eat your way around Wellington. Click here for more information about WOAP eateries.
Click here to view the programme guide.
Create your own burgers, drinks, and culinary goodness in the comfort of your own home, with the help of the following books to inspire more “play”:
Cookbooks at the library
- The Official Harry Potter Cookbook / Farrow, Joanna
- Learn to cook : 35 fun and easy recipes for children aged 7 years +
- Chef in training : kids in the kitchen
- The Ultimate DreamWorks cookbook / Littlefield, Cindy A.
- Easy Peasy! Real cooking for kids / Contini, Mary
- Disney Hocus Pocus cookbook / Craig, Elena P.
- The Minecrafter's Cookbook / Theoharis, Tara
- The Star Wars cookbook: Han sandwiches and other galactic snacks / Starr, Lara
- Yummy yoga: playful poses and tasty treats / Bauer, Joy
- Chews your own tasty adventure: a cooking journey where YOU get to choose the ingredients! : vegetarian recipes from around the world / Pathmanathan, Sai
For more books about cooking, click here.
John Jory's food group series
You’ll also love John Jory’s food group series where “food” are the main characters tackling life’s problems:
- The Bad Seed (2017) (About self-acceptance). Also available as an eBook and eAudiobook.
- The Good Egg (2019) (About self-care). Also available as an eBook, eAudiobook, and a VOX book.
- The Cool Bean (2019) (About self-esteem). Also available as an eBook and EAudiobook.
- The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape! (2020) (About teamwork).
- The Couch Potato (2020) (About self-management). Also available as an eAudiobook and VOX Book.
- The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky (2021) Also available as an eAudiobook.
- The Smart Cookie (2021) (About confidence). Also available as an eBook.
- The Sour Grape (2022) (About forgiveness and compassion). Also available as an eBook.
- The Big Cheese (2023) (About self-awareness and sportsmanship). Also available as an eBook and VOX Book.
While you’re at it, why not borrow some food themed DVDs to compliment your WOAP meal at home, such as:
The Nut Job follows the travails of Surly, a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions. Unwittingly, they find themselves embroiled in a much more complicated and hilarious adventure.
In The Nut Job 2, they plan another nut store heist of outrageous proportions, and again find themselves entangled in a comical adventure.
Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Treat yourself to Walt Disney’s animated and live action films of Beauty and the Beast. We love the epic scene where Lumiere greets you with a "culinary cabaret" of “Be our guest”, and you don’t want to miss the beef ragout, cheese soufflé or pie and pudding en flambé.
Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s original feature film Luca is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato (YUM!), pasta (DOUBLE YUM!) and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
Set in the great culinary city of Paris, Remy the rat dreams of culinary greatness; but it isn't until he comes across a human called Linguini (a very culinary name!) that he's able to realise his dreams. There are so many delicious dishes that we see throughout the film, but the care and beauty that is put into creating and animating the title dish (Ratatouille, of course!) is really something else!