Food & Drink
Summerhill, Kelowna
May 27, 2018 / 5:00 am
Photo: Contributed Join our wine writer, Allison Markin, every week for a wine review complete with food and music pairings. Featuring Okanagan and Canadian wines, with an occasional international bottle, Castanet celebrates the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine
Are you 'procrastibaking?'
May 26, 2018 / 6:00 am
Photo: Contributed There is a new trend emerging that is evident on social media, perhaps you have participated? #Procrastibaking is a popular hashtag on Instagram, duly accompanied by pictures of the owner’s accomplishment. As you might guess, this pastime is the practice of
Kraze Legz Winery, OK Falls
May 20, 2018 / 5:00 am
Photo: Contributed Join our wine writer, Allison Markin, every week for a wine review complete with food and music pairings. Featuring Okanagan and Canadian wines, with an occasional international bottle, Castanet celebrates the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine
Ready! Set! Summer!
May 19, 2018 / 6:00 am
Photo: Contributed The Victoria Day long weekend is traditional as the unofficial start of the Canadian summer. “May long," as it’s called in many parts of the country, is when the boats come out on the water and the steaks come out on the grill. Sometimes, Mot
Road 13, Oliver - Osoyoos
May 13, 2018 / 5:00 am
Photo: Contributed Join our wine writer, Allison Markin, every week for a wine review complete with food and music pairings. Featuring Okanagan and Canadian wines, with an occasional international bottle, Castanet celebrates the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine
Mom's the word
May 12, 2018 / 6:00 am
Photo: Contributed Sunday is Mother’s Day. Many people don’t agree with this holiday, saying it’s too commercial. This included the woman who petitioned for it in the first place; she hated that it became more about sending cards and flowers than something more i
Wild Goose, Okanagan Falls
May 6, 2018 / 5:00 am
Photo: Contributed Join our wine writer, Allison Markin, every week for a wine review complete with food and music pairings. Featuring Okanagan and Canadian wines, with an occasional international bottle, Castanet celebrates the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine
Reaching for the sun
May 5, 2018 / 6:00 am
Photo: Contributed The days are getting longer. The Flower Full Moon was just last weekend, meaning spring is officially in the air and in our souls. Green shoots abound, and blossoms of all kinds are bursting out everywhere. If you have allergies, I offer my condolences. For the re
Vanessa Vineyard, Cawston
Apr 29, 2018 / 5:00 am
Photo: Contributed Join our wine writer, Allison Markin, every week for a wine review complete with food and music pairings. Featuring Okanagan and Canadian wines, with an occasional international bottle, Castanet celebrates the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine
What's over the top?
Apr 28, 2018 / 6:00 am
Photo: Contributed I love to cook. I love to eat. I love a good adventure. That could be why I enjoy trying wacky recipes. My chef husband often shakes his head as I combine flavours and ingredients that at first look would seem to be strange bedfellows. Sometimes his reluctance for su
Quails' Gate, West Kelowna
Apr 22, 2018 / 5:00 am
Photo: Contributed Join our wine writer, Allison Markin, every week for a wine review complete with food and music pairings. Featuring Okanagan and Canadian wines, with an occasional international bottle, Castanet celebrates the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine
Start the day right
Apr 21, 2018 / 6:00 am
Photo: Contributed Breakfast cereal gun, from the General Mills archives How many times have you heard breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Today, many of us are on the run early, and so breakfast is often more about the coffee than the food—perhaps a donut at Timm
Tinhorn Creek, Oliver
Apr 15, 2018 / 5:00 am
Photo: Contributed Join our wine writer, Allison Markin, every week for a wine review complete with food and music pairings. Featuring Okanagan and Canadian wines, with an occasional international bottle, Castanet celebrates the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine
Food for thought
Apr 14, 2018 / 6:00 am
Photo: Contributed How good should food make us feel? Eating is a complex subject. What food we are supposed to eat is a topic of conversation at all ages. As a kid, you eat foods to make you healthy and strong and as you get older you have to balance guilty pleasures like desserts
Tokaji, Hungary
Apr 8, 2018 / 5:00 am
Photo: Contributed Join our wine writer, Allison Markin, every week for a wine review complete with food and music pairings. Featuring Okanagan and Canadian wines, with an occasional international bottle, Castanet celebrates the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine
Memories of Bambi
Apr 7, 2018 / 6:00 am
Photo: Contributed Did you ever see classic Disney animated movies like Fantasia or Bambi? They were my favourites growing up, but my childhood memories of them are dreamlike — fragments of scenes and songs. They inject themselves into my every-day life in a subliminal fashion.
Win with Wine Month!
Apr 3, 2018 / 1:17 pm
Photo: Unsplash/Scott Warman With Premier John Horgan in the Okanagan to promote April as Wine Month in B.C., what better time to savour what the Okanagan has to offer? Castanet is celebrating Wine Month by partnering with Okanagan wineries – and giving you a chance to win!
CedarCreek a BC pioneer
Apr 3, 2018 / 10:26 am
Photo: Contributed April is Wine Month in B.C. Here's the latest in our month-long series of features. CedarCreek Estate Winery is one of Kelowna's oldest wineries. Purchased in 1986, CedarCreek released its first wines in 1987 and was one of the first eight pionee
Hester Creek, Oliver
Apr 1, 2018 / 5:00 am
Photo: Contributed Join our wine writer, Allison Markin, every week for a wine review complete with food and music pairings. Featuring Okanagan and Canadian wines, with an occasional international bottle, Castanet celebrates the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine
Are holidays for everyone?
Mar 31, 2018 / 6:00 am
Photo: Contributed I read an article recently from NPR that discussed the appropriation of holidays by other cultures, and it got me thinking. As a gourmande, I am keenly interested in food specialties and traditions, and I love to taste them whenever I get the chance. Fairs,