Brisket Of Beef Recipe Biography
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Braised brisket is often served at family dinners during Rosh Hashanah, the two-day Jewish New Year's celebration, which begins this year on the evening of Sept. 24.
But wherever this tough-made-tender cut of beef shows up, it's comfort food.
And — let's get to the point here — comfort food deserves a good glass of wine. One raised to the New Year or maybe just raised to a relaxing weekend.
To find the perfect beverage, I wanted to taste test a specific brisket recipe because, as wine experts will tell you, it's often the sauce — and not the main ingredient alone — that determines the wine.
Everyone says their recipe for brisket is the best, and Karen Dredge is pretty sure about her family's favorite.
"I have a killer recipe for brisket," said Dredge, a self-described foodie and program assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies.
She explained that her mother was a Mexican Catholic and her father a Russian Jew, so family recipes often combined the two cultures.
"When my mother made matzo ball soup, she put little bits of chile pepper in the matzo balls," Dredge said.
The "twist" in her mother's brisket recipe is to add chili sauce and canned whole-berry cranberry sauce, which lend great flavor and color — and a good deal of tangy sweetness.
So I had my recipe in hand and now I needed to find the wine.
To get some advice, I checked in with Amy Ferrante-Gollwitzer of Ferrante's Restaurant & Signature Catering in Mequon.
There's the Italian side of her business, yes, but in addition to the restaurant and full-service catering, she says it's safe to say she does "the most kosher catering of anyone in southeastern Wisconsin."
"I'm the best Italian Catholic Jewish girl you'll ever meet," she jokes, adding that "for not being Jewish, I know a lot about kosher cooking."
That means lots of brisket over the course of a year for large events and small family gatherings, especially during Rosh Hashanah, Hanukkah and Passover.
And on the mostly Italian menu at Ferrante's Restaurant, you'll find Marlene's Signature Brisket, which uses a recipe she got from a Jewish friend.
She says sweet wines, such as the Bartenura Moscato, a slightly fizzy kosher wine, are popular, but her preference for brisket would be a full-flavored red such as Merlot or Shiraz.
That makes sense because Merlot and Shiraz — and blends that include these not-too tannic grapes — often taste slightly sweet, either because they have some residual sugar or because the ripe fruit flavors give the impression of sweetness.
That characteristic allows them to stand up to the sweet sauces that often accompany brisket.
With Dredge's "killer" brisket recipe, it was two red blends, both with a good amount of Merlot, that turned out to be pitch-perfect matches.
One is the 2011 Guenoc Victorian Claret, North Coast (about $12 a bottle), a medley of Merlot, Petite Sirah, Cabernet, Petit Verdot and Malbec. With rich flavor and subtle oak underpinnings, it's top-notch value and a versatile food wine.
The other is the 2012 Dalton Canaan Red (about $17 a bottle), a kosher wine from Israel made from Cabernet, Merlot, Petite Sirah and Syrah. This slightly sweet-tasting — but not at all cloying — red harmonizes beautifully with the sugar in the sauce.
If you are looking for more information on brisket — lore, history, recipes or beverage advice — a terrific resource is Stephanie Pierson's "The Brisket Book" (Andrew McMeel Publishing, 2011, $29.99).
Add brisket to Dutch oven and sear until brown, about 5 minutes per side. Carefully transfer brisket to a plate.
To same pot, add sliced onion and garlic and sauté until soft, stirring and scraping bottom of pot frequently, about 8 minutes.
Place brisket, fat side up, on onions. Pour sauce mixture over brisket. Cover pot tightly. Transfer to preheated oven and bake until brisket is tender, about 3 hours, turning oven down slightly if it boils too briskly. Let brisket cool 30 minutes before serving or refrigerate and serve the next day.
Note: You can cook this in a crock pot if you sear beef on both sides and soften onions before putting into crock pot. Also, reduce garlic cloves to two only.
In 2006, Joe Stanislaw, writing in the publication Energy in Flux: The 21st Century’s Greatest Challenge, identified the “S-C-S-C Axis” as the world’s energy focus of the coming decades. The global need for carbon energy, whether it be oil, gas or coal, would cause consumers and investors to look to Saudi Arabia, the Caspian Sea, Siberia and Canada, as the only parts of the world where carbon-based energy would be available in substantial quantities exceeding demand and would therefore be available for export.
In the intervening years, Mr Stanislaw has proven to be prophetic – at least, from a Canadian perspective. While some Middle East states are opening to private investment, Saudi Arabia is still all but closed. Investment limits and state behaviour involving the ‘problem of the obsolescing bargain’ continue to limit investment in the Caspian Sea and Siberia. But Canada remains vigorously open to private investment, including most foreign investment, in its oil and gas industry. The result has been a flood of new production capacity.
Expanded capacity has brought its own challenges as will be discussed below, but the advantages of Canada’s resource base, location and investment climate continue to make it an attractive destination for oil and gas companies, both domestic and international. This review is designed to highlight the areas of opportunity, and the challenges that face the oil and gas industry in Canada today.
INVESTMENT
Unlike many resource-rich parts of the world, Canada remains a steadfast supporter of private investment as the means to explore, develop, produce, process, transport and export its energy resources. The Canadian government and most provincial governments make considerable efforts to ensure that Canada is an investment-friendly state. State participation is restricted to a regulatory role, together with the levying of taxes and royalties. Corporate taxes in Canada continue their downward trend as is the case in much of the world outside the United States.
Historically, Canadians’ desire for foreign investment in its resource sector has ebbed and flowed. Foreign investment is regulated in Canada by the Investment Canada Act, the successor to restrictive legislation first enacted in the 1970s at a time when Canadian resource assets were being snapped up by international companies. The restrictions of the original legislation were lifted in the 1980s when it became evident that the investment needs of Canada’s resource base exceeded the ability of domestic investment capital. Current rules require an administrative review of any investment by a foreign firm only if it exceeds C$344 million; if it does, then the review seeks to determine that the investment involves “net benefit” to the country’s economy. Failure to meet this subjective test means the government can block an investment – but it has only done this twice, most notably in 2010 when it rejected BHP Billiton Ltd’s C$38.6 billion bid for Potash Corp of Saskatchewan Inc.
But the pendulum swung this past year when Beijing-controlled CNOOC Ltd bid for Canadian energy company Nexen Inc. After long consideration, the federal government allowed the C$15.1 billion takeover to proceed, but closed the gate behind that deal, saying that any further deals led by state-owned enterprises for Canadian oil-sands assets would be approved only under “exceptional” circumstances, as the federal government viewed further foreign-government involvement in that key sector as no longer of net benefit to Canada’s economy. While this seems to lower the boom only on state-owned enterprise investment in the oil sands, it may be reflective of the development of a broader restrictive attitude.
NON-CONVENTIONAL
Canada is the home of non-conventional oil and gas development. Canadians have always appreciated Alberta beef, and they eat the whole cow: tenderloin, sirloin, brisket, chuck and shank. We just use different recipes to eat the different cuts. It’s much the same with oil and gas in Canada. As technology and commodity prices have made more petroleum resources available, Canadians have been leaders in developing oil sands, shale oil and gas and coalbed methane. In other words, we consume the whole “petroleum cow”.
Developing these resources has not been without controversy. As with the different cuts of beef, each petroleum resource requires a different recipe, involving a combination of fiscal, tenure and environmental provisions that make the resource economically attractive and socio-environmentally appropriate. Sometimes, trial-and-error cooking techniques have meant that some of the regulation is brought in to correct evident errors in how regulation has been conducted to date.
Nowhere is this more the case than for the Athabasca oil sands. This massive 175 billion barrel resource is being developed using a variety of techniques. However, its development has created ire among Canadian citizens and foreigners who are concerned about its impact on the environment. Overall, the government estimates the oil sands were responsible for seven per cent of Canada’s annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2010, while the entire oil and gas sector produced 22 per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gases in the same year.
At the time of writing, the oil and gas industry was still waiting for the federal government’s promised greenhouse gas regulations for the oil and gas sector. The federal government has chosen a sector-by-sector regulatory approach as its main policy tool to reduce emissions to its national emission target for 2020. Effective oil and gas regulations could put Canada back on track to meet that target, but they could also impinge on the pace of development or costs or both of the country’s oil and gas resources.
Shale gas and shale oil developments are also the subject of controversy, as more experience is being developed with hydraulic fracturing. Canada and the USA are home to over 30,000 shale wells; the rest of the world has approximately 60. Attitudes towards shale development vary widely across the country; as the home of Canadian oil and gas development, Alberta’s environment is the friendliest. But limited shale gas exploration in New Brunswick and in Quebec (where the term gaz de schiste is often corrupted into an Anglo-French profanity by opponents) has faced many citizen efforts to ban fracking.
The Canadian oil and gas industry, and most Canadians generally, believe that shale development can occur in an environmentally safe manner. However, the development of proper regulations to allow this is a continuing story. Even the most pro-fracking advocates were taken aback when experience in Alberta demonstrated that in some circumstances, the fracturing of a well can cause a blowout of another well in close proximity. Alberta regulators have taken note and are adjusting regulations appropriately.
At a symposium in Calgary this past May establishing the University of Calgary’s extractive resource governance programme, Professor Paul Collier of the University of Oxford (author of Plundered Planet: Why We Must – and How We Can – Manage Nature for Global Prosperity, a book that should be required reading for anyone interested in energy and natural resources) said that Canada has a great deal to teach the rest of the world about how to manage and regulate a valuable resource base.
My own experience in 33 years of practice in this area is that Canada has a history of making and then fixing regulatory errors. If we are now regulating the right way in Canada, then it is only because we have exhausted all of the other possibilities. Professor Collier is correct: when compared with other jurisdictions, Canada stands out as a paragon of sensible exploration and development regulation.
PIPELINES
The biggest challenge facing the Canadian oil and gas industry today is market access. A growing production capacity, particularly in the oil sands, combined with delays in developing pipeline transportation to markets, has stranded a significant portion of Canada’s production. Canadian crude oil discounts compared to international market prices are costing Canada in the order of C$60 million per day.
US approval of the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring Canadian oil sands production to US Gulf Coast refiners has faced stiff opposition from environmental lobby groups. The issues have extended beyond the impact of the pipeline itself and extended to assessment of the impact of oil sands development on greenhouse gases. This has created pressure for Canada to take significant steps to meet its greenhouse gas emission guidelines as discussed above. Instead of Kramer vs Kramer, we’ve got Redford vs Redford: Alberta’s premier Alison Redford has taken issue with the US actor, filmmaker and now environmental activist Robert Redford, with both using their political and media skills to support their strongly held views. Canadians are waiting with bated breath for the final act of this drama, as President Obama moves towards a decision date on approving or rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline.
Of course, there is never a final act, except in the movies. Regardless of the fate of Keystone, alternate crude oil transportation routes will be needed and developed. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline is another logical route, but faces challenges from Canada’s indigenous First Nations as it crosses British Columbia and requires oil tanker access to the BC Pacific coast. Transport of crude oil by rail seemed like the expensive but safe option, until the wreck in Lac Megantic, Quebec, pointed out the risks of oil tankers on rails.
LNG
Canada has always looked to the United State as an insatiable market for the export of Canadian natural gas. But as the shale revolution changes supply, prices and import demand in the US (resulting, incredibly, in planned US LNG import projects converting into LNG export projects), Canadian gas producers have had to seek alternate markets. LNG exports from Canada are now being aggressively developed.
OFFSHORE
Most Canadian oil and gas activity occurs onshore within the jurisdiction of Canada’s provinces. However, there are offshore oil and gas activities off Canada’s east coast. The governments of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador are trying to expand investor interest and increase the number of companies active in that region. For oil and gas explorers, it is gratifying to see governments who recognise that it is a competitive market for capital today. You may expect to see exciting new initiatives from these parts of Canada, such as Nova Scotia’s highly successful promotion of its offshore, as Shell and BP together committed over C$2 billion of investment in eight blocks.
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Technology, economics and market dynamics are continuing to shape Canada’s oil and gas industry, and energy lawyers here know that these factors drive legal and regulatory change. Dynamic circumstances have led to dynamic change in regulation by legislators and government authorities who understand the need to respond. These trends are expected to continue through 2013 and 2014.
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