Food & Drink

Cooking to his strengths

Photo: Contributed Canada's top chefs return to Kelowna Feb. 1-2 to battle for the title of best in the nation at the Canadian Culinary Championships. The competition includes a Mystery Wine Pairing Competition, Black Box Competition, and Grand Finale at the Delta Grand Hotel.

He's cooked everywhere

Photo: Contributed Canada's top chefs return to Kelowna Feb. 1-2 to battle for the title of best in the nation at the Canadian Culinary Championships. The competition includes a Mystery Wine Pairing Competition, Black Box Competition, and Grand Finale at the Delta Grand Hotel.

Chef never stops learning

Photo: Contributed Canada's top chefs return to Kelowna Feb. 1-2 to battle for the title of best in the nation at the Canadian Culinary Championships. The competition includes a Mystery Wine Pairing Competition, Black Box Competition, and Grand Finale at the Delta Grand Hotel.

From farm boy to chef

Photo: Contributed Canada's top chefs return to Kelowna Feb. 1-2 to battle for the title of best in the nation at the Canadian Culinary Championships. The competition includes a Mystery Wine Pairing Competition, Black Box Competition, and Grand Finale at the Delta Grand Hotel.

A taste of Bonavista

Photo: Contributed Canada's top chefs return to Kelowna Feb. 1-2 to battle for the title of best in the nation at the Canadian Culinary Championships. The competition includes a Mystery Wine Pairing Competition, Black Box Competition, and Grand Finale at the Delta Grand Hotel.

Island born, Island cookin'

Photo: Contributed Canada's top chefs return to Kelowna Feb. 1-2 to battle for the title of best in the nation at the Canadian Culinary Championships. The competition includes a Mystery Wine Pairing Competition, Black Box Competition, and Grand Finale at the Delta Grand Hotel.

Time Winery Rosé

Photo: Contributed Wine: Rosé, 2017 Winery: Time, Penticton Why drink it? There are many ways to create rosé, and many styles to try. This one is Syrah with just a touch of cabernet franc for a bit of backbone, two varietals that are emerging as grapes that are thrivin

The world in one dish

Photo: Contributed Photo: Contributed A one-pot meal is the poster child of easy cooking. Today, it’s all about the spiffy Instant Pot, or if you didn’t get one of those for Christmas then surely you have a crock pot. My mom used to do meals in the electric fryin

Grew up in the kitchen

Photo: Contributed Canada's top chefs return to Kelowna Feb. 1-2 to battle for the title of best in the nation at the Canadian Culinary Championships. The competition includes a Mystery Wine Pairing Competition, Black Box Competition, and Grand Finale at the Delta Grand Hotel.

Machinist became a chef

Photo: Contributed Canada's top chefs return to Kelowna Feb. 1-2 to battle for the title of best in the nation at the Canadian Culinary Championships. The competition includes a Mystery Wine Pairing Competition, Black Box Competition, and Grand Finale at the Delta Grand Hotel.

Imagination key ingredient

Photo: Contributed Canada's top chefs return to Kelowna Feb. 1-2 to battle for the title of best in the nation at the Canadian Culinary Championships. The competition includes a Mystery Wine Pairing Competition, Black Box Competition, and Grand Finale at the Delta Grand Hotel.

Local first, chef's passion

Photo: Contributed Canada's top chefs return to Kelowna Feb. 1-2 to battle for the title of best in the nation at the Canadian Culinary Championships. The competition includes a Mystery Wine Pairing Competition, Black Box Competition, and Grand Finale at the Delta Grand Hotel.

Chef cooks with love

Photo: Contributed Canada's top chefs return to Kelowna Feb. 1-2 to battle for the title of best in the nation at the Canadian Culinary Championships. The competition includes a Mystery Wine Pairing Competition, Black Box Competition, and Grand Finale at the Delta Grand Hotel.

Office eating etiquette

Photo: Contributed When you were little, your parents probably told you about: not putting your elbows on the table excusing yourself if you burp not slurping your soup other rules of eating etiquette. Now though, many meals aren’t eaten at a table; we eat in the ca

The One, Noble Ridge

Photo: Contributed Wine: The One, 2015 (sparkling) Winery: Noble Ridge, Okanagan Falls Why drink it? First, if you still owe the sparkling wine lover on last year’s gift list a good present, consider the three-pack (three different vintages) of The One. As for this single bott

Poll: eating out

Photo: Contributed Feeling hungry? Dine Around Thompson Okanagan is back for another year. A launch party will be held Jan. 15, at Okanagan College in Kelowna. Dine Around, which is conducted by the B.C. Restaurant and Foodservices Association, allows patrons to taste some of the re

Are you a trendy eater?

Photo: Contributed In our never-ending quest to belong, we are constantly checking our status to see where we sit in popularity charts. How many friends do you have on Facebook? Are you wearing the right kind of shoes, or make-up are your skirts or pants in the most popular patt

La Frenz 2017 Chardonnay

Photo: Contributed Wine: Chardonnay, 2017 Winery: La Frenz, Naramata Why drink it? Not a fan of oaked chardonnay? You just need to find one that balances the elements of the grape with delicate barrel treatment (or ask if the wine in question has been through malolactic fermentation

A not-so-instant pot

Photo: Contributed I wonder what you got up to as the New Year approached. Did you catch up on some reading, or binge-watch a new favourite TV show? Perhaps you were energetic and got outside for some skiing or hiking. I did have some extra quality time with my four-legged pal, bu

Quails' Gate Totally Botrytis

Photo: Contributed Wine: Totally Botrytis Affected Optima, 2017 Winery: Quails’ Gate, West Kelowna Why drink it? What is botrytis – “noble rot” caused by moist conditions in the vineyard, and a deliberate choice (or happy accident), that intensifies the flavo