August 17 ~ North Shere News

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OUT OF every 10 visits | make to a restaurant, | order
seafood probably nine times. OF course, I’ve learned that
there are certain places where you don’t go at all, much fess

orde: the seafood.

A restavrant doesn't have to be
a “Seafood House’ to serve fine
fish — in fact. sometimes the op-
posite applies.

I've been to many where there
seems 10 be a contempt for the
product — maybe just too much of
it — and the Newbergs are gooey,
the curries so hot as to be tasteless,
and forget the oysters.

Ive always loved oysters. Raw?
Magnificent, but spare me_ that
awful, red junk marketed as
cocktail sauce.

Pan-fried in cracker crumbs and
stuffed into a crisp French roll? I'll
take two, please. Broiled oysters
wrapped in bacon? Don't leave the
serving dish too close to me!

In the years gone by, oysters
were a far betler pregnancy test for
me than a visit to the doctor.

First came the craving — I had

budget
beaters

Barbara McCreadie

rst course

to have a plate of oysters. Brian
would humor me and off we'd go
-~ he'd watch while | munehed.
Probably no less than 20
minutes after 1 finished my plate,
my color would change to that ofa
raw oyster and fo couldn't cal

another one for a year. My kids
aren't too keen on oysters, even
today.

} had @ plate of the most

wonderful oysters the other night
and the restaurant (The Savoury,
on Gallant Avenue in Deep Cove)
kindly pasted with the recipe. {Hf
you want to dazzle some dinner
guests with a fantastic first course,
try this.

Aupusto’s Oysters Estoril
(Portuguese)

Five oysters on the half-shell
make up an appetizer serving. The
quantities will serve four,

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“welcome” at the thought of entering the 52%
tax bracket. But the truth is, every time you
open a beer, that’s how much of it is going to
Federa] and Provincial taxes.

the recent provincial tax hike here in British
Columbia, we're actually paying more than 56%,
which is one of the highest rates anywhere in
the free world.

and should be kept from climbing higher. And we |
wanted you to know the facts, so that next time
anyone suggests raising taxes on beer, you can ask
yourself what's fair.

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pay for 12 botues of domestic beer, $5.62 goes to |
Federal and Provincial taxes, $2.31 is spent
on production, $1.08 on labour, 86¢ on sales and
distribution and 76¢ goes to packaging and
recycling. The brewer makes 17¢ profit on the
case, or 1.4¢ per bottle

We think beer taxes are already too high

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