Cooking School: Pizza

Find amore with the perfect pizza pie

Miradoro pizza

Pizza is a bit of an enigma. It can be gourmet, or delivered in a cardboard box within 30 minutes. It can be wood-fired, or come chugging along from under a conveyor belt oven. It can be a humble Neapolitan pie or topped with luxurious ingredients like caviar and smoked salmon. It can have a buttery, deep-dish Chicago-style crust or a super-thin, crispy style dough.

Cork versus Screwcap: An experiment

A blind taste test to determine whether the Tinhorn Creek 2001 Oldfield Series Merlot is better under cork or screwcap

wine corks

I recently received a package with two bottles of wine in it. As a wine reviewer, this isn’t too unusual for me. However, this package was unusual because it contained two bottles of Tinhorn Creek 2001 Oldfield Series Merlot — one finished under screwcap, one finished under cork.

Tinhorn Creek to open Winery Restaurant

Miradoro restaurant opens on April 1

Miradoro

On April 1, a little bit of the Mediterranean arrives in the Okanagan Valley.