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
Quebec City, 8:42 pm. While Dan explores poutine in Canada, Shannon explains its ideal characteristics: This is a great poutine because it has enough gravy to cover most of the fries and melt the cheese slightly, but not so much to soak all the fries and ruin the crispiness factor. Poutine or otherwise, we want to see what you're eating. Share pics of your
Lucky Dan Pashman is journeying through Quebec, so naturally he's ordering poutine every chance he gets. He'll be reporting more about his french fry, gravy, and cheese curd haze soon. He's also been getting advice from wise Canadians through FB and Twitter. His tweets introduced us to a shadowy and fascinating Twitter account that's propagating poutine content at an alarming
Attention West Coast. If any of you check this out, let us know if it's worthwhile artistically or foodistically. And do tell what it makes you want more: food, or boxy hipster transport machines. If nothing else, I'm glad to know there is a Candy Wrapper Museum in this world. /mark [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/11669679 w=500&h=283]
A proud mom sent this drawing from one of our most youthful and dedicated fans, eight-year-old Nathaniel. His awesome oeuvre was inspired by a moment from the french fry dips episode. And may his artwork inspire YOU to continue taking part in Tell A Friend About The Sporkful Week. You don't even need Nathaniel's artistic talents to spread the word.
We're planning future shows on shakes and egg sandwiches. (These are separate shows, of course. But in terms of eating, they're not bad consumed together.) You can make the episodes more awesome by sharing your thoughts on either or both topics. The Sporkful is always better when you weigh in, so hit the comments with your ideas, rants, questions and