Don’t come to Montreal on a diet and with a closed mind. Two signature foods you can’t leave the city without trying are Montreal Bagels and Poutine. Today, we're talking Poutine. We'll save the bagels for later.

Poutine is not exactly the healthiest choice you can make when visiting Montreal but it's an experience to say the least: French fries, melted cheese and gravy. C'est le Paradis!

The oldest and most famous joint in town is La Banquise, which has been serving up to 26 choices of poutine for nearly 40 years. Sample it during the day or indulge late-night after a long night of drinking. It's open until 3am!

Watch the video as we go back into the kitchen of La Banquise to watch them make our poutine goodness. ]]> shiralazar 2009-04-09T17:15:30-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/12/14/163837/83

It may be a little chilly right now, but Quebec offers as much culture as Europe for way less cash. And thanks to the resurgence of the dollar, there's never been a better time to head to Canada. Dana McMahan just got back and is dishing on the province's eats all this week.

Part of travel is about eating the foods that the locals eat. But that's become more and more difficult, of course, with the same generic chains serving up regulated slop from Beijing to Barcelona. While on a recent trip to Quebec, though I made an important discovery: Evidently the odder the food item, the stronger the possibility it won't be replaced by an assembly line Quarter Pounder. ]]> travelingmcmahans 2008-12-15T16:30:31-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/7/6/64758/10132

Okay. It's a little creepy that our last post mentioning poutine was almost exactly a year ago. But that was about fancy food, and it's time to talk about the real deal: fries from any restaurant in Quebec, covered with gravy and curd cheese (and occasionally some other toppings, like the meaty Italian sauce seen here).

While Maine has fresh Ocean lobster and Italy has antipasti that fills us long before our meal arrives, it can be hard for a food-loving traveler to go searching out a regional dish that looks like someone's five-year-old son wrote the recipe. But it would be a mistake to pass up this regional delight. Besides, weren't you looking for an excuse to gorge out on French Fries anyway? Er, French-speaking Canadian Fries? We know, we know. There's a difference.

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