TheThe South Marysburgh MirrorMirror Let's Have 13 A Party Outdoors! By George Underhill The defini(cid:415)on of al fresco dining is "in the open air." Well, I've eaten outdoors a lot. For several summers I was (cid:415)mber cruising and because we were tramping far back in the bush we carried our lunch. Gobbling down a cheese sandwich half crushed in your back pack, washing it down with a canteen of lukewarm water while figh(cid:415)ng off swarming blackflies, mosquitoes and deer flies, that's not the kind of outdoor ea(cid:415)ng I enjoy. I'm talking about celebratory ea(cid:415)ng. Sean Robinson gave me a big old Can- ada Goose once, and we deep fried the thing in a special deep frier a friend had that would do a turkey. You plunged the bird into a cauldron of bubbling fat and you are supposed to enjoy a crispy fowl, like a Kentucky Fried Turkey. Maybe we did something wrong because we dined on a greasy tough old bird that we only ate out of sheer hunger… and lots of beer. Now a nice barbeque on the pa(cid:415)o, prefaced by some cold beer, well that's a different ma(cid:425)er. Add the Perlick Kegerator and you've got something. Buy a keg of beer (sold at the beer store), s(cid:415)ck the keg in the Kegera- tor which is a kind of a keg sized refrigerator with taps, and Bob's your uncle; you can professionally fill a glass from a bar-type handle with your favourite suds. Don't let the price ("from only $4,572") in(cid:415)midate you. A(cid:332)er all, you want your friends to have a good (cid:415)me don't you? By the way, I hate the phrase "from" when it's applied to cost. What's it really cost? Not in the mood for charred meat? I'm always in the mood for that, but you could try the Kalamazoo Ar(cid:415)- san Fire Pizza Oven. The promo(cid:415)onal blurb says you can get a Neapolitan-style pizza in under three minutes! What? How can you get a pizza in under three minutes? Anyway, that's what they claim. The company has an- nounced a model that can be installed into a wall or ma- sonry structure, and you can get one "from only $8,126". I don't know, but that seems a bit steep. Eat one pizza each week for five years and each one would cost about thirty bucks just to cook it. I know what you're thinking, if you're going to spend eight grand for a pizza cooker, the price is irrelevant. S(cid:415)ll, at that rate a pizza and a Keg- erator beer would be an extravagance only the truly wealthy could contemplate. Al fresco dining has reached new levels of so- phis(cid:415)ca(cid:415)on. Remember the Hibachi? A li(cid:425)le portable thing you carried to a picnic, threw in some charcoal, added nice smelly fire starter, seared off your eyebrows, and then charred your burgers. It worked pre(cid:425)y well. The new Cal Flame Gas Hibachi Grill can be yours for $1,251. Is this an improvement on the old Hibachi? May- be so, maybe not, but it's a lot sexier. If you want to eat breakfast outdoors and cook pancakes, try the EVA Classic Wheeled Fla(cid:425)op Gas Grill (Con(cid:415)nued on the next page) Check for specials all of July! NEW HOURS: Mon. to Fri.--8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sat. & Sun. - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 613.476.1118 1955 County Road 17