Top chefs are leaving Western cities to bring wine-country cuisine to the Okanagan. The culinary revolution has begun.
Plus The Okanagan’s star chefs dish up their favourite recipes.
Wine An insider’s guide to the valley’s best.

ALSO OF INTEREST
Green Vines and Wines Taste the beginnings of an eco-friendly industry at these Okanagan wineries.
Organic, Biodynamic… Plonk? Today green wines are earth-friendly and palate-pleasing.

The Flying Chef
Makoto Ono, the Winnipeg whiz kid crowned Canada’s best chef in 2007, is winging off to Beijing, where his new restaurant will serve the cuisine of champions.

Do Vintages Matter?
Vintages, one of the last frontiers of wine snobbery, could be...obsolete?

Vessels
Wine glasses that breathe, chug and masquerade.

Sauce-Spangled Banner
Here’s the beef: the Texas-style barbecue around Austin that’s worth travelling for.

The Peaks of the Valley
What’s new in the Napa Valley, starting with a reborn Meadowood.

New World Gourmet
In search of Western Canadian gourmet you’ll find a bounty of local luxuries.
Plus recipes by chef Scott Pohorelic of Calgary's River Café and chef David Hawksworth of Vancouver's Hotel Georgia.

SOURCES Who says the finest foods have to come from Europe? Here are some luxe imports and their Western Canadian counterparts.

Spalicious
The rise of spa and resort cuisine: culinary programs where you’ll be tasting, slicing, dicing—and acquiring killer recipes to take home.

The Sweet Science
The bacon chocolate—and other oddities of the savoury chocolate
revolution.

The Fabulous Baker Gals The feminine mystique of Calgary's top bakeries.