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In some cultures,cutting the wine o
ut of
cooking isakintosawingoffanarm.InI
talian
andFrenchcookery, forinstance,botha
renec-
essary formaking awe-inspiring dishes
.
“Wine has always been an essential thin
g to
use in cooking. If you had a farm, you h
ad to
usewine.Mostpeople inItalymadethei
rown
andstilldo,” saysPinoPosteraro,whow
asre-
cently voted chef of the year in Vanco
uver
Magazine’sannualrestaurantawards.A
ndfor
goodorbad,he’sbeenmaking Roberto
Luon-
go’s pre-game lobster linguine meals fo
r sev-
eral seasons. (Moreabout this on E6)
“Barolo is now expensive, but at one t
ime,
therewasanexcessinPiedmont.They’d
use it
to tenderize secondcategory cuts of me
at. It
wasanecessity, away of life,” Posteraro
says.
Becausehewasscrawnyasakid,Postera
ro’s
mom fed him raw eggs beaten with for
tified
wines to make himstrong. From her po
int of
view, vermouth and Marsala maske
d the
flavourof theraweggs.Fromthepointo
fview
ofagastronomeinthemaking, itwas lik
ecold
sabayon. His momalso made the kids
a cake
“bathed invermouth,” he says.
“I use lots of wine in my restaurant [C
iop-
pino’sMediterraneanGrill]cooking,”he
says.
“If you take fatty cuts like short-ribs or
pork
cheeks, theaciditymakesit less fatty,mo
reap-
petizingandlighterandtheacidity isa fl
avour
enhancer. With lemon juice, you don’t c
ook it
and you have to addit right at the end. W
ine,
you cook it, it goes inside the fibres and
satu-
rates. It’s unbelievable.”
Warren Geraghty, chef at West restaur
ant,
lets thewinetakethe lead,preferringto
devel-
opadisharoundthewinehe’susing. “It’s
more
possible to hit thenotes dead-on if y
ou’re
building around thestructure, the nose o
f the
wine.It’spossible tomakeitperfectbyju
stad-
justing, say the pepper, in the dish. And i
f you
nail it on the head, the majority of p
eople
wouldnoticehowthedish justworksbu
t they
won’t be sure why,”he says.
Like Posteraro, Jean-Francis Quagli
a, of
Provence Mediterranean Grill and Pro
vence
Marinaside, grew up with wine and it’s
insep-
arable from cookery. “All my meat dishe
s use
some kind of wine at some point in the
cook-
ing,” he says. “It adds another eleme
nt to
sauces,especiallydemi-glace. Iusewine
inmy
cookingeverydayandIdrinkwineevery
day.”
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ENNEr
The era of ro
ck-bottom mo
rtgage
rates ended w
ith a crush of
work for
mortgage bro
kers and ban
k-loan
officers.
It started Mon
day with a flo
od of
homebuyers l
ooking for las
t-minute
approvals to s
neak in under
the wire
before interes
t-rate increas
es went
into effect th
e next mornin
g — sig-
nalled in anno
uncements by R
BC and
TD that they w
ould raise the
ir five-
year posted ra
tes 0.6 of a pe
rcentage
point to 5.85 p
er cent, an 11-
per-cent
jump. Scotiaba
nk, CIBC and B
MO fol-
lowed the mov
es with rate bu
mps of
their own.
There were a
lso calls from
clients
looking to lock
in variable mo
rtgages,
and customer
s exploring op
tions to
refinance at hi
storically low
five-year
rates.“Everyb
ody was in the
ir office with
their heads dow
n the whole tim
e they
were there,” m
ortgage broker
Chris
LeMay said in
an interview a
bout the
environment in
his office at a D
omin-
ion Lending Ce
ntres branch i
n Van-
couver, when
news of the im
pending
rate hike first w
ent out on Mo
nday.
“I was here un
til 7 p.m. waitin
g on
one last client
. Everybody h
ad their
heads down f
or a good eigh
t hours
getting pre-ap
provals, helpin
g people
lock in.”
The immediat
e effect of th
e in-
crease, along w
ith impending
chang-
es to mortgage
-qualification r
ules, will
be to reduce th
e size of mortg
age for
which borrowe
rs will be able t
o qual-
ify, which mar
ket participan
ts antici-
pate will put a
damper on rea
l-estate
prices.“Now t
hat we see th
e first phase
of normalizatio
n [of interest r
ates],
that’s further
going to erode
afford-
ability and tak
e a bite out of
the pur-
chasing powe
r of Metro Van
couver
households,”
Cameron Mu
ir, chief
economist for t
he B.C. Real E
state As-
sociation, said
in an interview
.
The increase c
ame as no sur
prise,
though. For m
onths, specula
tion has
been about n
ot if, but whe
n rates
would be going
up, given sign
s of life
in the national
economy and a
spec-
tacular recove
ry in housing m
arkets,
particularly in
Metro Vanco
uver and
B.C.“Peopl
e know rates a
re going up,”
LeMay said. “T
he Bank of Cana
da said
its overnight r
ate is going up
. People
put it all into o
ne basket and t
hink ev-
erything is goi
ng up.”
In general, Mo
nday signalled
a real-
ization that th
e environment
of ultra-
low rates, whi
ch were usher
ed in to
stimulate the e
conomy at the
start of
the recession in
2008, is endin
g.
Since Decemb
er, however, w
hen
federal Financ
e Minister Jim
Flaherty
noted concern
s over the pos
sibility
of overheating
housing mark
ets and
Bank of Canad
a Governor M
ark Car-
ney expressed
his worries ove
r Cana-
dians’ record d
ebt levels, the p
ressure
has been on to
raise rates and
cool the
economy.
The change in
five-year rate
s will
definitely cool
the ambitions
of buy-
ers, Joe Santos
, president of t
he Mort-
gage Brokers A
ssociation, said
.
He calculated
that a family
with
$100,000 in h
ousehold inco
me, as-
suming they ca
n negotiate a
reason-
able discount to
posted five-ye
ar rates,
would see their
purchasing po
wer re-
duced by about
$40,000.
Before the cha
nge, he said, th
at fam-
ily could quali
fy for a $614,0
00, five-
year mortgage w
ith 35-year amo
rtiza-
tion and a disc
ounted mortg
age rate
of 3.89 per cen
t.
Now, however
, the same fa
mily
would likely fa
ce a discounte
d rate of
4.49 per cent, w
hich reduces th
e max-
imum mortgage
they could qua
lify for
to $574,000.
“It’s obviously
going to make
it more
difficult for p
eople to
qualify for Va
ncouver and
Lower Mainland
purchases, bec
ause
property value
s tend to be hig
her here
than in the re
st of Canada,
” Santos
said.He add
ed that the imp
ending change
to mortgage-qu
alification rule
s intro-
duced by Flahe
rty in January
will also
crimp the hope
s of buyers tryi
ng to get
into variable-
rate mortgage
s, which
are based on
and float with
banks’
prime lending
rates.
Prime, for no
w, rests at a l
ow 2.25
per cent, but a
fter April 19, n
ew rules
state that bo
rrowers with
only the
minimum fiv
e-per-cent do
wnpay-
ment need to
be capable of q
ualify-
ing for a mortg
age with the fi
ve-year
posted mortga
ge rate to get a
variable
mortgage.
That, Santos s
aid, limits that
fam-
ily with $100
,000 in inco
me to a
$480,000 mor
tgage, versus $
647,000
before the cha
nge.
Banks and mo
rtgage broker
s have
seen borrowers
shift away from
those
variable mortg
ages over the p
ast year,
however, in an
ticipation that
the Bank
of Canada wi
ll raise its key
lending
rate, which ha
s a big influen
ce over
bank prime rat
es.
Jared Dryer,
managing bro
ker at
Dreyer Group
mortgage brok
ers, said
among his cu
stomers, abou
t 75 per
cent are opting
to take the cer
tainty of
fixed-rate versu
s variable mort
gages.
A couple of yea
rs ago, when v
ariable-
rate mortgages
could be had w
ith rates
discounted from
the prime rate
by as
much as 0.9 o
f a percentag
e point,
only about 40
per cent were o
pting to
take fixed-rate
mortgages.
That includes M
ike Graham, a
Drey-
er Group clien
t who owns tw
o rental
properties tha
t have variabl
e mort-
gages, but opte
d to lock in a f
ive-year
fixed rate wh
en he bought
his own
home in White
Rock last summ
er.
“The market w
as changing, e
very-
body was talk
ing about the
interest
rates going up,”
said Graham, a
White
Rock realtor. “I
just thought fo
r a prin-
cipal residence
, maybe I’ll ju
st take
some of the ri
sk out and no
t gamble
as much with t
hat one.”
Dreyer added
that borrowe
rs who
hold existing v
ariable-rate m
ortgages
are still in a go
od position, ev
en when
the prime rate
starts to rise
with in-
creases in the
Bank of Canad
a’s key
rate. So he adv
ises them to co
nsider
holding off on l
ocking in.
However, ther
e was a period
in 2008
and 2009 wh
en the variab
le rates
crept up to a p
remium of up t
o a full
percentage po
int above prim
e, and
broker LeMay
has encourag
ed those
clients to lock
into the certa
inty of
fixed rates.
In the big pictu
re, however, th
e bot-
tom line is that
Canada’s bond
market,
jittery about in
flation and the
prospect
of the Bank of
Canada raising
its key
interest rate, i
ncreased its ra
tes.
And since bank
s raise the fun
ds for
long-term mor
tgages in the bo
nd mar-
kets, those are
what set inter
est rates
for loans of five
years or longe
r.
Benjamin Tal,
a senior econo
mist at
CIBC World M
arkets, said it
had be-
come evident
over the past c
ouple of
weeks that lon
g-term mortga
ge rates
would have to
increase as bo
nd mar-
kets reacted t
o inflation rep
orts and
on concerns o
ver the balloo
ning of
government d
ebts, especial
ly in the
United States.
“This is the b
eginning of the
tight-
ening,” Benjam
in Tal, a senio
r econo-
mist at CIBC W
orld Markets sa
id in an
interview. “The
era of extrem
ely low
interest rates i
s over.”
The challenge
for lenders n
ow is
to remind bor
rowers that th
e higher
rates consum
ers are seeing
are still
relatively low
compared wit
h just a
few years ago.
Kevin Lutz, B.C
. regional mort
gage
manager for R
BC, noted tha
t posted
five-year fixed r
ates were 7.19
per cent
two years ago,
and the prime
rate was
5.25 per cent.
“When you pu
t it into perspe
ctive,
we’re still in a
low-interest-
rate en-
vironment, de
spite rates goi
ng up,”
Lutz said. “Th
e big news is th
at we’re
coming off tha
t all-time low.
[But]
consumers hav
e enjoyed low
rates for
quite some tim
e.”
End of an era
Mortgage-rate r
ise marks last o
f rock-bottom lo
ans WEEk
End� Extra
Calculating the
difference
Most homeown
ers know that e
ven small chan
ges in interest ra
tes mean a big
difference in wh
at we pay on o
ur mortgages. H
ere’s a look at ra
tes since 2001.
Now that we see
the first
phase of norma
lization
[of interest rate
s], that’s
further going to
erode
affordability and
take a
bite out of the p
urchasing
power of Metro
Vancouver
households.
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At the heart of Joyeauxis
Vietnamese food. Theplace is
packed at lunchtime, with many
mouths connected to large bowls
by ribbons of pho noodles.
Since summer is the
time when
thoughts turn to cooking on the
gri l l , we’re besieged with
recipes. And understandably
so,sinceit’shotinsideyourdwelling
and you don’t wantit any hotter than it
already is.A barbecue solves
the heating-up-
your-home problem but you may not
ownabarbecueorwant to ownabarbe-
cue. And really, noteverything is great
grilled.
I’m not a fan of grilled salmon. Yep,
you read that right. I think grilling is
appropriate for small, whole, fatty fish
like sardines and mackerel, and it’s all
right for slabs of meaty fish like alba-
core tuna. But salmon? Nope. Don’t
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ulous or I’ll try to convince
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My preferred method for small sides
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low roasting. Slowand low keeps the
texture tender andsucculent with the
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Salmon with piperade.
Local blueberries
aren’t
quite the divas that local
strawberries are. The first
of the berries are now available
and they’ll be around until at
least September,giving you
plenty of time toenjoy their
company (unlike strawberries
which depart early, leaving us
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love).“Our growers are do
ing a good
job of producing early, middle
and late berries,”says Debbie
Etsell of theBCBlueberryCoun-
cil. “Instead of oneseason, it’s
multiple seasons.”Since B.C. is the
second-largest blue-
berry producing re-
gion in the world,
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advantage of this healthy food.
We all knowabout their antioxi-
dant properties butevidence of
the benefits keep growing, says
Etsell. “They talkedabout bene-
fits for eyesight, heart health
and digestion at abig health
symposium in Monterey, Cali-
fornia recently,” she says. “But
the big one is the antioxidants.”
Blueberries are healthy fast
food. “You don’t need to peel,
pare or core,” saysEtsell. “Just
wash and eat.”
Of course,with a little effort on
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Since 1981, The Vancouver Sun’s Vacation Donation Program has been providing newspapers for use in classrooms, building both literacy and critical thinking in B.C. schools. As a subscriber, you can support this program by donating your newspapers while you’re on vacation. Plus, when you donate, you are automatically entered to win prizes through our NIE Vacation Donation contest. For more information on NIE, please visit vancouversun.com/nie.
To donate your newspapers during your next vacation, simply call Customer Service at the number below or visit our Subscriber Self Serve online. (See FAQ#1).
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1. Can I Manage My Account Online?
Yes. You can instantly update your subscription account online with our Subscriber Self Serve. To get started, simply visit www.vancouversun.com/subscriberselfserve and click on “Manage My Print Subscription.” Please note, you’ll need to set up a canada.com account. Sign up when prompted during registration. Once you’re registered and signed in, you can:
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Online: Register for “Subscriber Self Serve” and instantly update your credit card information securely online. See FAQ #1 on how to register.
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Yes. Simply visit our secure page www.vancouversun.com/renew. Or, if you are already registered for Subscriber Self Serve, you can make a payment there.
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