In today's Bite: Inspired to cook

Pot roasted pork with Chinese greens. Photo / Bite magazine

Find all your favourite bits from today's Bite magazine online. Follow the hyperlinks in Jo Elwin's editor's letter and lose yourself in bite.co.nz.

Goodness there is alot on at the moment for food lovers - the winners of the 2016 Bakels Supreme Pie Awards are being announced tomorrow night so we can all be assured the best pie wherever we are in New Zealand.

You will find the full list of winners here from 10pm tomorrow night, in the meantime try your hand at judge Mark Southon's venison pie.

Mark's pies. Photo / Bite magazine

But the main event in most calendars this week is

The Auckland Food Show

. We've had a sneak peak at what's on offer this year and have compiled our list of what not to miss. I find the show total madness but year after year I come out of it having seen lots of old acquaintances and met lots of new ones. I am always inspired, informed and hugely proud of the New Zealand food industry. If you are quick and enter today you could

win a very special VIP experience to The Show

. See you there!

The delicious Auckland Food Show hamper prize pack. Photo / Bite magazine

Travel hugely inspires us in the kitchen and Ray McVinnie has recently toured

The Sunshine Coast

, returning to cook

Kin Kin General Store's poached chicken salad

and this

pot-roasted pork shoulder with pineapple and Chinese greens

was inspired by a recipe in a community cookbook he picked up in Eumundi.

Kin Kin General Store' Poached Chicken salad. Photo / Bite magazine

Also in bite this week

• Monday night chicken with pears and spinach

• Peter Gordon thinks of mushroom alternatives for those with allergies

• Mikki Williden helps the diet of those living with osteoarthritis

• Louise Thompson is telling stories