Food & Drink

Blue Mountain, OK Falls

Photo: Contributed For Canada’s 150th birthday this year, Castanet is featuring an Okanagan wine each week, celebrating the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine industry, including suggested food pairings and Canadian music artist to listen to while enjo

Eat dirt on Earth Day

Photo: Contributed The news is full of items on all the trends about food and eating – Slow Food, the Food Revolution, the 100 Mile Diet – but does any of it really make a difference? In the grand scheme of things, is it better if I support the local farmer growing somethin

Liquidity, Okanagan Falls

Photo: Contributed Wine: Viognier, 2016 Winery: Liquidity, Okanagan Falls Why drink it? “Vio”, once you start adding it to your wine portfolio, will quite likely become one of your go to white wines for its medium body,  and not-too-heavy and not-too-light mouthfeel

Chicks, bunnies and tulips

Photo: Contributed Well, here we are, already at Easter. Are you ready? Probably not. In today’s world, time flies. There never seems to be enough moments to make the most of a day; we are always rushing to fill all our obligations. Easter is a celebration that rates the

Poplar Grove, Penticton

Photo: Contributed For Canada’s 150th birthday this year, Castanet is featuring an Okanagan wine each week, celebrating the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine industry, including suggested food pairings and Canadian music artist to listen to while enjo

A sip of coffee history

Photo: Contributed Take a break; be a part of history Perhaps it is the slow coming of spring and my need for a bit of extra warmth, but I have been thinking a lot about coffee lately. With my ever-curious brain and its search for more trivia, that led me to thinking about the

Cheers to beers at festival

Dustin Godfrey Sample-sized cups of craft beer permeated a convention centre brimming with merry crowds Friday evening, which can only mean one thing. Fest of Ale has hit the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre once again, and organizer Martin Lewis says Friday night

Cedar Creek, Kelowna

Photo: Submitted   For Canada’s 150th birthday this year, Castanet is featuring an Okanagan wine each week, celebrating the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine industry, including suggested food pairings and Canadian music artist to listen to wh

Foolish food

Photo: Contributed April Fool’s Day is today, so I thought I would use that as inspiration to be a bit goofy. It could be cabin fever – the delayed arrival of spring has made me a bit stir-crazy. I don’t know about you, but I just feel that a little bit of whimsy

Gray Monk, Lake Country

Photo: Contributed For Canada’s 150th birthday this year, Castanet is featuring an Okanagan wine each week, celebrating the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine industry, including suggested food pairings and Canadian music artist to listen to while enjo

Parents deserve break too

Photo: Contributed The kids are out of school – are they driving you crazy yet? If you don’t have any, you might be muttering that the mall or the movie theatre is busy or traffic patterns are wacky, but count your lucky stars. If you are a parent, you have kids underfoot a

Township 7, Naramata

Photo: Contributed For Canada’s 150th birthday this year, Castanet is featuring an Okanagan wine each week, celebrating the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine industry, including suggested food pairings and Canadian music artist to listen to while enjo

Message in a bottle

Photo: Contributed We spent two weeks on the Mayan Riviera recently, enjoying the sand and the sea. It was warm, sunny and very relaxing, but also very troubling. The water and the sky are beautiful shades of azure, but the sand is littered with all kinds of garbage. More than any

Black Cloud, online

Photo: Contributed For Canada’s 150th birthday this year, Castanet is featuring an Okanagan wine each week, celebrating the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine industry, including suggested food pairings and Canadian music artist to listen to while enjo

Seasonal shock therapy?

Photo: Contributed Springing forward is a great thing once you’ve done it, but I always feel like I was robbed of that hour of sleep on the Monday after. Usually though, the continuing daylight does take effect and I am reminded of that old John Denver lyric, “Sunshine

Gehringer Brothers, Oliver

Photo: Contributed For Canada’s 150th birthday this year, Castanet is featuring an Okanagan wine each week, celebrating the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine industry, including suggested food pairings and Canadian music artist to listen to while enjo

Thoughts of spring sprouting

Photo: Contributed Continuing on my train of thought from last week, I am blazing ahead with my visualizing of spring. I know it’s still a bit nippy out there, with grey skies and mucky fields, but never fear, spring is fast approaching. In case you’re not feeling the wa

Burrowing Owl, Oliver

Photo: Contributed For Canada’s 150th birthday this year, Castanet is featuring an Okanagan wine each week, celebrating the bottles of our Valley and the diversity of the Canadian wine industry, including suggested food pairings and Canadian music artist to listen to while enjo

New winery coming along

Photo: Deborah Pfeiffer A downtown winery being built at the former PenMar Theater site on Penticton's Martin Street is quickly taking shape. Harry McWatters, co-owner of Time Winery,  said everything is going according to plan, and the hope is to open this

We all need a Lion's Day

Photo: Contributed Phew, it’s all but over          The calendar is about to flip. February will soon be a memory. It seems to be the month that pretty much everyone is happy to see go. No one says, “TGI-February.” Ev