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Like Neapolitan pizza and the French baguette, the iconic Quebec dish — which is marking its 60th anniversary — merits UNESCO recognition.
This Quebecois comfort food is equally artery-clogging and delicious. So what is poutine, and why is it such a craze?
Article content Sylvain Charlebois, “the food professor,” has authored or co-authored a half-dozen books mostly relating to food policy and distribution. But the Dalhousie University researcher and prof has just emerged with his weightiest tome yet, certainly on a caloric scale given the content of the item perused and likely on a historical one as well. Charlebois’s Poutine Nation delves into the creation of the iconic dish that once bound only Quebec and now, because of culinary appropriation, binds the entire country both figuratively and digestively. The book — available only in F...