_. PUREST VEAL —
--FROM MOMTREAL.

By JUDY CREIGHTON

cP Family Editor

HALIFAX (CP) - When
Philippa Monsarrat is
teaching her cooking
students how ‘to prepare a-
dish using veal, she has it
flown into Halifax from .
Montreal. =

Why? Because Mrs.
Mongar: Tatiga cat -adnitted
purist about the culinary
arts and says that all the
veal she can ever find in the
Maritimes is already
breaded and added to.

“That's the trouble with
cocking well these -days,’"

expehsive rebtaurant to eat
commercial salad dressing.
Consequently, I won't either
use or teach my students to
use — this pre-packaged

“ars.
. Monsarrat has been
rumning thy coocking schoo]
from her modest but cozy
home for three years.
And besides teaching local
people -the ‘fine’ art of
curmet: cooking, she has
d students from as far
away as Ottawa.
might ting’ a ‘bell with
ring a wil
Canadians who read the
novel or saw the movie of
The Cruel Sea in the 1950s.
Its author, Nicholas
Monsarrat, is Philippa’s ex-
husband.

_ AWARDED CUSTODY

Since their == much-
pubdlicizez divorce in 1961,
after Mrs. Monsarrat
charged her husband with
desertion and was awarded
costs of the action and
custody of the couple’s two
sons, Mare, now 23, and
Anthony, 22, she. has lived
quietly in Toronto, Montreal
and for the past eight years
in Halifax.

Today, Mrs. Monsarrat

s carved out a natural
career for herself. As her
culinary school became well
known, she received offers
to do food-related television
shows for the CBC.regional
service in the Maritimes
and now is serving as a
_ consultant te chefs in
Liverpool, N.S.

‘HALIFAX

But she is not sold on food
programming on television.

“Food is getting a bad
name via TV,” she said: “I.
don’t like such programs as
Celebrity, Cooks because it
‘tends to cheapen the art.
Food isn’t something you
throw aroun,"

When designing the kit-
chen for teaching purposes,
Mrs. Monsarrat had to
absorb half a bedroom to
have a larger working area
for her students.

PREFERS GAS STOVES

The result is a ‘well-
planned room with
numerous cupboards to hold
every utensil imaginable for.
the gourment. She uses both
electric and gas stoves-the
latter she says are more
popular as. they are quick.

_In the centre of the room
is a large-portable island

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Monsarrat keeps staples.

She has seven students at
a time and charges $90 for a
six-week course, one night a

week.

“I believe in learning by
doing,” she said, “rather
than by demonstration.”

Students learn to cook
complete meals from main
course, salads and soups to
dessert.

There is Philippa’s whole
baked fish consisting of
delicate haddocks dressed
and stuffed and topped with
a shrimp sauce.

Or, bouillabaisse made
Allantic style with a variety
of fishes, lobsters and

jussels

m .
After students have
epared -a delicac
Pan eat itand then -must
clean up after themsleves.

OUTSPOKEN ON
QUALITY .

Mrs. Monsarrat thinks
that cooking has a long wa

to go to become excellent, ©

especially in Canadian
restaurants. .

“Unfortunately, I don’t
think people really care,”
she said,

“It’s unforgivable how
badly cooked so many meals
are in restaurants.”

SHE FOUND IT “terribly
difficult being an ex-
patriate, .

“I'm so very grateful now
that my sons have been
brought up in Canada,” she
said. ‘The situation there in
South Africa now as I see it
is lethal.”

She printed and published
a woman’s Magazine when
she lived in South Africa and.
met Nicholas Monsarrat
there. —

“T was 17 when we met,”
she said. ‘We lived together
for a_ time,
married.”

The couple moved to
Canada where Monsarrat
served as director of the
United Kingdom In-
fromation Office in Ottawa.

NOW LIVES IN MALTA.

He left Canada in 1966 and
after living in Guernsey, in
the Channel Islands, moved
to Malta where he resides
quietly with his third wife
Ann ‘

Mrs. Monsarrat Philippa
reminisced abut the “grand
days” after The Cruel Sea
became a best-selling novel.

“That turned out to be a

meaningless life of minks, .
‘rubies and Rolls Royces,”

she said slightly bitterly, -
Yet at 58, this witty, vibrant
and attractive divorcee has

come to terms with her own

life. .
She adores her two sons.

Anthony is a free-lance -

photographer in Halifax,
while her eldest son Mare
lives in Vancouver.

Her constant companion
is Cleopatra, a Dandy
Dinmont terrier who
shadows her mistress ex-

_ cept when she bars her from

cooking class,

“It was a bit upsetting for
sons Mare and Anthony
when I named her

Cleopatra,” she sald with a
laugh, -

then we.

Luring

Governments at all
levels are spending more
money this year to convince
free-spending Canadian
tourists to leave more of

their travel dollars in their &

own country,

Federal tourism officials
say their budget for
domestic advertising is
being increased by one-third
this year to get Canadians to
see their own couttry first.
Provincial tourist offices
also are making.a bigger
push for the domestic dollar.

Federal officials say the
affluent 50 per cent of
Canadians who do most of
the travelling now are doing.
more of it and in both winter
and summer,

But increased winter
travelling, most of it to

‘warm southern weather,

has led to a steady increase
in the tourist deficit. since
the 1967 Centennial Year,
the last time. foreigners
spent more money in
Canada than Canadians:
spent abroad. - - -

Last year, foreigners
spent nearly $2 billion in
Canada, up $115 million
from the year before. But
Canadians spent nearly $3.1.
billion outside their borders,
an increase of $579 million
from 1975, leaving an over-
all tourist deficit of about
$1.1 billion,

This year, the federal
government has added
another $500,-000 to its
Canadian advertising
budget to reduce the deficit.

“We're saying, ‘You're
obviously going to travel
someplace, don’t overlook
travelling in Canada,” said
Thomas Fletcher, who
heads the federal office of
tourism. - Federal govern-
ment ads are once again
pushin the — slogan
one so much to go
or.”

Tourism is a big industry
in Canada. Canadians
travelling within the
country ‘and visitors from
abroa
billion last year, say tourist
office officials.
that ‘provided about
800,000 jobs, direct and
indirect, including about

- 500,000 yearround.

f Tourlsm earned more
lor exc e than the
gale of wheat, Tt was the
fifth largest earner of
foreign exchange after cars,
wood pulp, c
newsprint. —

make precise: dollar

predictions on what can be

expected this year other

than to say they expect the

spending deficit to be re-
c

. Afew things are going for
the tourist industry this year
that might work for an in-
crease in spending from the
United States, which still
accounts for about two-
thirds of the foreign tourist
dollars spent in Canada.
The Canadian dollar has
dropped nearly eight per
cent relative to the
American dollar in the last
year, Making the American
dollar go farther here.
That should also en-
courage more Canadians to.
spend their mone in
an

THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday June 2, 1977, PAGE

in

Quebec, because of the
Olympics, was one of the
few provinces to record an
increase in foreign
travellers last year.. Its
overnment has increased
its advertising budget to
about $4.6 million from $3.2
million.

Although part of that
increase will be spent on
romotion in the U,S., the

rist office has begun a
series of ads aimed at
convincing Quebecers to
visit a part of their own

province. .
The office is also in-
creasing promotion of group
tours from other parts of
Canada in an attempt to
make up for jogs of con-
vention business from the

Ube province also is doing
joint advertising with On-
ario and the federal
overnment romoting
ighway tours that include
historic sites in some of the
oldest settled parts of the

country.

The Ontario tourism office
reports it will spend about 75

r cent of its advertising

ollars in U.S, ‘quality
magazines and in radio
and television ads in cities
within. 150 .miles of the
Canadian border.
In Newfoundland,
parations are under way
or the Canada Summer
Games, to be held in St.
John’s, Aug. 7-19.

The Games are held once
every four years, and hotels.
report bookings are growing

-steadily. Private homes are
being canvassed to provide
extra: beds.

The Nova Scotia tourist
office. is taking a ‘more
aggressive approach to
selling its recreation areas
in customer service centres
in Toronto, Montreal and
New York. A Chicago office
serving the U.S, Midwest is

the tourists

soon to be opened.

Nova Scotia and New-
foundland together with
Prince Edward Island and
New Brunswick have begun
to co-operate on tourist
promotion but so far the
only joint venture is-a pro-
gram called “We Care,”
aimed at improving the

uality of washroom
facilities in service stations
along the Trans-Canada
highway. Tourist officials
say washrooms are the
most common source of
complaint from visitors.
wll British Columbia,

ist operators are hopin
for better-weather than lat
year to.draw more visitors

‘orn

Coast.
As part of an intensive
provincial government

promotion in the U.S. north-
west, a restored steam
locomotive, the Royal
Hudson, made a whistlestop
tour to every West Coast
ci

ut .the . province .is. also
advertising in Ontario for
tourists to travel by air to
B.C. Ontarians are
especially desirable visitors
because they tend to stay
longer in their destination
and spend more money,

says Dave Hall of the.

provincial tourism
department.

Alberta, Manitoba and
Saskatchewan are all
promoting travel to their
area by other Canadians.
US. visitors make up only a
small percentage of the total
out-of-province visitors to
Saskatchewan because
there are nolarge U.S. cities
nearby.

Alberta is aiming ads at
Albertans, trying to get
them. to do more travelling
in their own province,

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