hahabogus wrote:

> Booze is taxed to the max in Canada. I buy 1 or 2 large bottles of Sherry a
> year for cooking purposes. It takes a long time for sherry to go bad. And a
> cheaper but nice tasting large bottle of sherry can cost as low as 8-10
> bucks Canadian. Sherry works well in most soup, gravies and chinese dishes
> by the way. I spend more on black peppercorns in a year than I spend on
> sherry. Go mad and buy the sherry.

Too true, both the booze taxes here and the cost of peppercorns. Even so, I
suggest going for the good stuff. Decent sherry is not much more expensive than
the domestic sherry swill. I have never learned to appreciate sherry as a
drink, but my wife loves good dry sherry and we use quite a bit of it in
cooking.