This Christmas season, family kitchens will reconnect with their old scents now that this most tumultuous year is coming to an end. They will have the aroma that the air gets when palm oil mixes with it, which then leads to asking what special experience can you create in the Meiza Flavour Fiesta culinary showdown.

Here is a hybrid sort of cook-a-thon with a definite time limit. No matter the complexity of your food idea, your chance of winning will only be determined by the number of votes gathered from a 5-minute video you must have submitted to our email. The video will show you preparing a unique dish that our audience should be adding to their meal selection this Christmas holiday.

The videos taking part in the Meiza Flavour Fiesta will be posted on Meiza’s YouTube channel where your friends, colleagues and family members can vote in the submissions. The videos with the highest votes get the top three spots – with the grand prize of ₦100,000 obviously going to the entry that has the most likes among the trio.

All these you can achieve with the simplicity of a phone camera as well as any extra cooking skill you have in you. These put together guarantee the grand prize and the feeling of triumph that comes from winning it.

So, now let’s get on to thinking about and exploring the dishes that centre on your roots in this Christmas cooking competition, how to prepare the unique dishe(s) that your people cherish this festive season. What makes you eligible is to first register, then submit a 5-minute video with good lighting and sound by Tuesday, 13th December.

In the video, you are telling us how to make a native cuisine that is peculiar to your community. It should be fun getting to teach about Nigeria through food, shouldn’t it?

We have launched Meiza Flavour Fiesta to let you share about your culture and what matters to you and the country from a food perspective. Let’s not dilly-dally any longer, off to setting up your recording set, sending in your entry and sticking with the terms of participating in this competition.

Get in by registering here – www.mezia.ng/flavourfiesta . Once you register, you will get a pop-up response confirming your registration and there will be instructions afterwards directing on where to deposit the carefully prepared clip of your cooking.

Ayodele Johnson

Ayodelé is a Lagos-based journalist and the Content and Editorial Coordinator at Meiza. All around the megacity, I am steering diverse lifestyle magazine audiences with ingenious hacks and insights that spur fast, informed decisions in their busy lives.