Jj From Vancouver Calls In Listen on Posterous We received this email from Jeff in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, regarding our Call In Smorgasbord #2 episode... The gentleman from Vancouver who was opposed to ice cream cake had some fair points in his argument. However, there was one that, as a Canadian, I have a problem with: "...I think [ice cream cakes] are the
In our Poutine / Canada Day Spectacular show, I told the story of my somewhat disastrous (but ultimately rewarding) attempt to bring maple butter back from Quebec in my carry-on luggage. Recently we got this from Katie... I had to write in to share my recent maple butter airport security triumph. Last week I was in Vermont on vacation and after
Last month we did a Canada Day Spectacular show that focused on poutine, in which I argued that poutine would be better if it was served with the gravy on the side. (In my travels in Quebec -- poutine photos here -- I found that too often, poutine was so soaked in gravy that the flavor of the cheese curds
Happy Canada Day! Julie Zwillich is the perfect person to celebrate Canadian food in our episode on poutine and other Canadian nourishment. She's a TV food host and dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, so she knows the deliciousness happening on both sides of the border. But we learned that she's also an expert in
July 1 is Canada Day, and we're toasting our friends to the north. Dan is just back from Quebec with a crazy story about getting maple butter through airport security, Mark stands up for gravy-soaked poutine fries, and Canadian TV food personality Julie Zwillich calls in to chat about other classic fare from the great white north.
Canada Day is nearly upon us, and we're celebrating with an episode on the french fry, gravy, cheese curd heavenslice known as poutine. We'll also talk about other food awesomeness from north of the border. We're learning a lot from our Canadian listeners, and picking up some interesting ideas and opinions. A cross-cultural poutine variation is one e-mail that caught our