The world-famous Québécois snack of chips, gravy and cheese curd is arguably Canada’s national food. But there are dozens of other regional delicacies to be found across the country. Here are 10 you have to try
From Vancouver’s deserved reputation for Asian fare (in both its classical and contemporary incarnations) to the hearty variation on French peasant food that forms the basis of Québécois cuisine, Canada’s food culture has been shaped as much by generation after generation of immigrants as it has by its provenance, and the enduring legacy of its First Nations peoples.
In other words, diversity in Canada is not just some abstract concept – it is something you can taste. So it is with the 10 snacks, specialties and delicacies below, all of which are either immigrant foods that have become, in their own way, somehow Canadian (such as Ukranian pierogi and the smoked meat sandwiches of Montreal’s Jewish delis); or Canadian foods that could only have been imagined by immigrants (poutine, of course).
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Source: Gaurdian
