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...publicity stunt to lure tourists, Alberta's Social Credit government staged a "national dish" contest, offered $1,000 in prizes. Contest rules called for a dish "distinctive to Alberta" which could be served by restaurants for not more than $1. Six thousand plain and fancy recipes (including one from a wag who suggested "grilled gophers fried in Turner Valley oil with Alberta gas over a mountain range") swamped contest headquarters. Last week in Edmonton, the judges selected a plain-sounding winner...
First prize-$600 and a gold medal-went to pretty, rosy-cheeked Jessie Hazard Smith, an Edmonton housewife. Her dish: Alberta Gold Medal ranch steak, cut off the fillet, rump, sirloin or tenderloin, dipped in salad oil, grilled in a hot pan from eight to twelve minutes, spread with one tablespoon of butter and sprinkled with salt & pepper...
Like many a housewife who had sweated over a fancy recipe for the contest, the Edmonton Journal was put out: "Just why steak should be a typical Alberta food is not explained. . . . Grilled prairie chicken or buffalo stew . . . would have lent itself to seductive advertising." But Dan Campbell, the Social Crediters' pressagent, liked it fine. He got ready to beguile tourists with the slogan: "Alberta is the only place in the world where you can get a thousand-dollar steak for one dollar...
...prairies of Alberta have plenty of room, but not for Hutterites...
During World War II, thanks to cash from high food prices, industrious Hutterites extended their farm holdings in southern Alberta. Protests at their "land grabbing" persuaded the provincial legislature to prohibit their buying any more. The wartime ban ends next May 1 and the 33 Hutterite colonies are already planning to expand...