Calvin Trillin eats poutine
In the November 23rd issue of the New Yorker журнал, Calvin Trillin writes about “what may be, for better or worse, Canada’s national dish.”
He’s talking about poutine, a Quebecois creation of French fries topped with brown gravy and cheese curds.
It’s better than it sounds, particularly when you’re taking a break from the ski slopes or when you’ve got the late-night munchies (Trillin refers to poutine as a “beer sponge…”).
The article is available online only to magazine subscribers, but you can listen to a podcast with Trillin as he samples poutine in New York (Ðью-Йорк?!? How about Montreal, where of course there’s a website devoted to all things poutine?)
If you can read French, or if you just like to look at pictures, проверить MaPoutine.ca, which has photos and mini-reviews of poutine around the world — even in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso (!). And you can read our earlier poutine post here.
Photo by Joe Shlabotnik (Flickr)
