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First Look: Lakehouse Home Store in Kelowna
Another reason to head to downtown Kelowna? Lakehouse, a 4000 sq ft contemporary home and kitchen store newly opened at 510 Bernard Street, at the corner of Ellis Street. Local owners, and equally passionate about design, Sue and Ben Boschman have created a lifestyle store ...
The Skinny on Luscious Greek Yogurt
It began with a recommendation from your health-conscious friend for better digestion and overall well-being. Then you started seeing it in your small local organic grocery stores, eventually spreading to the larger ones and now, it’s even a Starbucks snacking staple. Greek yogurt has ...
น้ำปลา: Fish Sauce Decoded
If you’ve ever had Thai food, or made a Vietnamese or Cambodian recipe, you are probably familiar with fish sauce. Its English name is somewhat frank, and doesn’t exactly conjure up a delicious image. But Fish Sauce adds a hallmark flavour to many dishes and ...
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Weekly Planner February 17 – 23rd
It’s a busy week in Victoria – on Saturday you could head downtown and hit the Farmer’s Market, attend the Tea Festival followed by Seedy Saturday….then enjoy a lovely meal at one of the restaurants participating in Dine Around Victoria and finish off your evening ...
Chef Tips: Waste Not Want Not
Creative Uses for Kitchen By-products and Other Generally Discarded Ingredients While we’ve come a long way from the days when every unused item made its way into our trashcans, there are still many opportunities for us to reduce our impact on the environment by ...
The Victoria Tea Festival arrives this weekend.
Victoria tea lovers, heads up: North America’s largest tea show is just around the corner, and it’s right here in our city. The Victoria Tea Festival, held at Crystal Garden February 18-19, invites guests to participate in a fun and informative exhibition celebrating “all things ...
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Locally Made Valentine’s Day Chocolate: Where to Buy
No holiday is as complex as Valentine’s Day, a conflict of faux indifference paired with simultaneous longing. “It’s commercialized,” we’ll say, scoffing at the hearts and the bows, while secretly hoping an admirer will observe the tradition and ‘surprise’ us nonetheless. Love can be professed ...
Weekly Planner February 10th – 16th
This week, it’s all about Valentine’s Day celebrations – take your special someone out for a lusty meal. Save some room though – Dine Around Victoria starts next Friday (check out Sneak Peek event, information following). A Sweet Dinner for Your Sweetie – Big Leaf ...
Q&A with Leslie Sutton of Flying Fish, Nanaimo
If you live on Vancouver Island, you may have heard of it. If you live in Nanaimo, you probably love it. Located in the heart of downtown Nanaimo in a early 1900’s heritage building, Flying Fish is a locally owned and operated shop featuring ...
