Canada
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Poutine
Québec's glorious mess: crisp fries, squeaky cheese curds and hot gravy, melting together into comfort. Ingredients: potatoes, cheese curds, beef or chicken stock, butter, flour, salt, pepper, oil. Recipe: 1) Cut and dou…
Tourtière
French-Canadian spiced meat pie in flaky pastry — the centerpiece of the Christmas Eve réveillon. Ingredients: ground pork, onion, garlic, potato, cinnamon, clove, allspice, savory, pie pastry, egg, salt, pepper. Recipe:…
Butter Tarts
Small pastry shells filled with a gooey butter-sugar center, plain or with raisins — Canada's sweetest debate (runny or firm?). Ingredients: pastry, butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, egg, vanilla, raisins (optional), salt…
Nanaimo Bars
British Columbia's triple-layer icon: a crumb-and-coconut chocolate base, custard-yellow butter icing and a glossy chocolate cap — no baking, all decadence. Ingredients: graham crumbs, cocoa, coconut, walnuts, butter, eg…
Montreal-Style Bagels
Montreal's contribution to bagel greatness: hand-rolled, poached in honey water and baked in a wood oven until blistered, chewy and faintly sweet. Ingredients: flour, yeast, malt or sugar, eggs, oil, honey (for the poach…
World Cuisines
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