The Cooking Festival is an annual competition to see who cooked the best dishes. The player must give any cooked dish to Thomas to join. After giving it to him, the dishes presented by participating villagers and also by you will be judged by Gourmet, who will then announce the winner. Since players don't have access to the kitchen in the first year, they might not be able to compete in the Festival. However, they can still enter the competition if they bring store-bought Grape Juice from Aja Winery (though they won't be winning the competition).