Letting sharp sabring
skills rip and then roar

FOR THOSE with a festive
focus on celebration, a small
interlude of culinary jargon
for haute cuisiners from the
Table Hopping Department.

Today’s term: Sabrage.

As in the art of beheading
expensive botiles of champagne
with a sabre as practised by
Confrerie du Sabre D'Or.

A Nov, 10 session was held at
Vancouver's place d° haute cuisine:
the Five Sails (or is that Five
Figure Sales?) Restaurant si the
Pan Pacific Hotel.

Table Hopping staff were other-
wise engaged.

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Beheading of
champagne

bottle signals
start of party

The Navor of the event, howev-
er, is best captured by Confrerie
extraordinaire Prince Alain de
Polignac:

“Champagne is a form of enno-
blement for the wine bottle: it is no
longer an ordinary vessel, but
rather a tool.”

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Righto Al. And the sabring
itself?

“It (the sabre) leaps from its
scabbard, barely grazing the neck
of the bottle, leaving a burst of
laughter suspended in the air after
its rapid flight. In a final metamor-
phosis brought about by the magic
of champagne, the sabre, rather
than imposing order, gives the sig-
nal for the party to begin.”

Indeed, and as they say in the
North Shore sabrage backwoods:

Rip and roar, monsieur.

And a Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year to all readers and
sabrage artists.

— Table Hopping Department

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Shore Recycling-sponscred event at Park & Tilford Gardens.

Eco-gifts gaiore

Christmas presents need not pollute

Store-bought Ideas:

»* festive washable cloth napkins to
prevent use of paper

« wildflower seeds

* hot water bottle with fuzzy cover

* warm, woolly pajamas

* biodegradable soaps and shampoos
* bicycling and hiking path maps

* give a garden ~— include soil, seeds
and a shallow pot or two

* baskets fcr a home recycling system
* camping gear with which to enjoy
the great outdoors!

* a refillable pen or pencil

¢ a reusable coffee filter (cloth or
metal) with organically grown coffee
a refillable razor and cartridges

* give “gveen” books to your family
and friends, emphasizing more envi-
ronmentally responsible ways to
clean the home, travel, reuse objects,
etc.

* decorate a terracotta pot

° cotton hankie

* wooden toys

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