Frage Wiz July 16, 1990. This Week OH CANADA wi) ee oe Te A eae «flat, invites you to make beer for 25 cents a bottle In just four weeks, you can produce 60 bottles of high quality premium beer for about 25 cents a bottle. You can make this from an “everything included” pre-mixed beer kit. It’s so simple, you just add water and follow the instructions with no muss or fuss. Ss = The beer kit consists of a container, about the size ofa pound can of coffee, in which all of the ingredients have been skillfully pre- mixed and pre-measured. You simply add water, a packet of yeast (supplied) and sugar — and, bingo, your 60 bottles of beer are brewing. Total time in making, probably well under half an hour and the bottling takes another half hour. Total floor space required is about four foot square. Start off this weekend with a Wine-Art beginner's kit which includes all the basic equipment and ingredients for your first 60 bottles. 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See a participating dealer now. 1830 Island Highway Colwood 474-2148 2700 Government St. Victoria \_ 386-8345 Westerners stung by sidewinder in saddlebag To the western eye, looking angrily over the rim of the prairies, the banks and the manufacturers and the protec- tive tariff and the railroad and the Ottawa government all merged into one distorted image — the East. Stephen Leacock h, you don’t want to get a Weste Canadian i about the East. Westerners keep a whole corral full of complaints about the way they’ve been misled, bamboozled, and outright swindled by smooth talkers with soft hands and sharp suits. The oldtimers even had a word for it: TOMfoolery — TOM signifying the East- ern lairs where the mis- leaders, bamboozlers and swindlers lay thickest and deepest — Toronto, Ot- tawa and Montreal. The West (as any Westerner is only too happy to tell you) has been double- crossed and dry-gulched by the East more times than Bill Vander Zalm has teeth. Bad enough that Westerners have to suffer the smirks and slurs of arrogant Easterners who don’t know their trembling aspens from a gopher hole in the ground — now they've been stung by a viper nestled in their own bosom! Sorry - make that a sidewinder in their saddlebags. What am I talking about? Hah. What's nearest and dearest toa proud cowboy’s heart? Cattle, right? Good solid, western range, grain-fed beef cattle, whence cometh plump, juicy, melt-in-your-mouth, taste-this- and-die Western beefsteak. Can you think of a better way to earn yourself a ringside seat in the Albertan version of Hades than to bad-mouth beef? Folks, there's someone doing just that on the nation’s TV screens right now. PIPE Besie-Black By ARTHUR BLACK What's more, she wears chaps and fringe jackets and stetsons and sundry other sartorial affec- tations favored by romantics of the Western persuasion. Moreover, she hails from Con- sort, Alberta — is largely responsible, in fact, for putting tiny Consort on the country and western map. Folks, I’m talking about the singer who calls her- self, k.d. (no caps, please) lang. The nugget of truth is as simple as it is brutal: k.d. lang is a card-carrying vegetarian. Not a big deal in New York, perhaps — or even in Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal. But it is a very big deal indeed in Cattle Country. As soon as the FOR THE SPICE OF LIFE, VISIT THE featuring the Island's largest collection of culinary secrets including the finest works in International, Canadian, Local. Microwave, Vegetarian and Health, Professional. Childrens, Desserts and Wines. 114D 2187 Oak Bay Ave. Athlone Court Victona, B.C. (604) 595-5208 (free parking at rear) *,.. in celebration cf fine food and dnnk” e The House & Garden Cookbook e Mediterranean Light e Cooking Above the Tree Tops Canadian Cattlemen’s Associa- tion heard the k.d. had done a series of anti-meat advertise- # ments for a U.S. Animal Rights Organization, the beef producers cranked up their own | PR machine and returned the fire. “We're getting pretty fed up with these celebrities who think theyre experts in areas where they have no expertise” sniffed the CCA general manager. “I think there’s going to be a lot of people disillusioned with lang because of this, and it won’t be restricted to Alberta.” From the sound of it, k.d’s prepared to take the heat. Just» like her music, the ads pull no~ punches. “Tf you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch,” she says in one ad. “I know — I'm from cattle country — that’s why I became a vegetarian.” “Meat stinks” opines k.d. as she stands beside a cow, “andnot just for animals but for human health and the environment,” Well, as a reluctant carnivore who once worked in the Ontario Public Stock Yards and has seen more of the inside of a slaughter house than I needed to, I'd have @ to agree with the vegetarian from Consort. I guarantee that if the shop- pers pawing through shrink- wrapped pork chops and veal © cutlets at the supermarket meat counter ever saw how that stuff got from on-the-hoof to in-the- freezer, Canada would becong: world famous overnight as the noisiest nation in the world. Just imagine the sound of 26 million jaws all chewing celery at once.