Curated playlist
Canadian cuisine
- French friesFrance, Belgium, Spain and Chile each claim to have invented french fries. Historians have never fully settled it.
- ColeslawColeslaw has a recipe on record from 1667, credited to a Dutch landlady. It appears in a cookbook called The Sensible Cook, or De Verstandige Kock. The author attributed it to the woman who rented him a room. She mixed thin strips of…
- Fish and chipsFish and chips, the battered fried fish with thick potato pieces that many call the national dish of the United Kingdom, still has one kitchen where an 1860s method survives untouched. That kitchen is not in Britain. It is in northern…
- PancakeA pancake, also called a hotcake, griddlecake or flapjack, once sent a woman running to church with her frying pan still in hand. Tradition places the scene in Olney, England, in 1445. A housewife was frying pancakes to eat before the…
- Maple syrupQuebec alone accounts for 72 per cent of the maple syrup produced on Earth. Almost all the rest comes from Canada and the United States, which makes this one of the most geographically lopsided foods in the world. Maple syrup is a sweet…
- Peanut butterIn March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, retail sales of peanut butter in the United States rose by 75% compared with March 2019. The jar in question holds a paste of ground, dry-roasted peanuts, often with salt, sweeteners, or…
- BarbecueBarbecue first shows up as a noun in 1697, and it was a place to sleep. The English buccaneer William Dampier wrote that his party lay down for a night upon their "Borbecu's, or frames of Sticks". Three centuries later, the word names a…
- PoutinePoutine, a heap of french fries and cheese curds under hot brown gravy, may owe its name to a shouted complaint in 1957. In the Quebec town of Warwick, a regular customer asked café owner Fernand Lachance to drop a handful of cheese curds…
- Buffalo wingThe Buffalo wing is named for Buffalo, New York, where it was invented, and it has no connection to the animal. Its story starts with a part of the chicken that almost nobody wanted. Around the time of the dish's supposed invention in…
- Sunday roastThe Sunday roast came second. In a 2012 poll asking Britons what they love about Britain, this plate of roast meat, potatoes and gravy was beaten by only one other item on the list. The Sunday roast goes by several names: Sunday lunch,…