The Cooking Festival is an annual event that takes place in Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories. It is a festival that celebrates food and the culinary expertise of the villagers. In addition, winning the contest will raise your esteem with all the villagers at once (i.e. Gets you extra brownie points ;p) Participating and winning this contest for the first time will trigger the "Cooking Participant" and "Cooking Champion" memories respectively. Cooking cutscene :