Links to Food & Dining On-Line
Mangez comme un Québecois ... encore

    The amount of info on the web is enormous, as anyone who's ever tried to run a search can attest to.  And, to put it all in context, best estimates say that only a fraction, maybe 20 - 40 % of what's out there is actually making its way to the search engines. 
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    Here at DownStreet, we'd like to try to help.  So each issue, we post a few links in Food & Dining to sites that might interest you.  Sometimes the links will be related to one another  ...  sometimes we'll just offer up a somewhat random sampling.  In either case, we think we might be able to help you find the kind of site you've been looking for.
    Of course, while we can't vouch for the fact that every link we provide will be of interest to everyone, we do our best to filter out the noise and the bustle.  ...

Mangez comme un Québecois ... encore.
We ran these links last month. But, to coincide with our feature on The Winter Carnival in Québec, we thought you might still be tempted to eat like a Québecois on your visit.

So ...

• Québec traditional cuisine!

  This site -- a personal home page on U. Montréal's Computer Science & Operations Research site -- is offered up by a fellow by the name of Hugo Dufort.  In addition to the usual university home page or CV, publications, etc., Msr. Dufort also offers up a select list of restaurants in Montréal.  But none of that is why we're here.  ...
  
  We're here because Hugo has seen fit to post an entire page with links to recipes ... all devoted to traditional Québécois food.  Here, you'll find it all -- from pea soup, meat pies, and ragoûts to an array of deserts that could easily take you through the winter.  But what's more, you'll also find recipes for traditional dishes of the holidays, including Tourtière, a ragoût with pig's feet and meatballs, and Brown Sugar Pie.  There's also a recipe for a Twelfth Night Cake {Gallette des Rois}, Cipaille {another meat pie, this one with chicken, beef, pork and veal} ...
  
  Well ... I've got to stop somewhere.  So I'll do it here, with thanks to Hugo for both his efforts and his results.

  
  Rating: **** [4 stars]
  

• Aux Anciens Canadiens - Notre Menu
  The Menu {English}

  At 34, rue Saint-Louis -- the main street entering Vieux-Québec as you approach Le Château Frontenac -- there's a quaint little two-story with a stuccoed white façade.  As it turns out, the building is the oldest in the city, Maison Jacquet.  And the food that's served within reaches back to those roots.
  
  Normally, we'd review a site like this under the travel section.  And we may just do that again, somewhere down the road.  But for now, we want to focus on the menu.  Aux Anciens offers a nice assortment of the traditional Québécois cuisine:  Ragoût,  two different Tourtières {du Lac St-Jean &  du Québec}, and a Bouilli Québécois.  But they take things a step further, with game meats like caribou and duck, as well as salmon.  ...

  The idea here is to check out the dishes and try to find your way from there to a recipe of your own.  But be forewarned.  If you go to Québec, you'll probably have to stop in just to compare notes.
  Rating: **** [4 stars]
  

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