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Poutine

Quebec's iconic comfort food: crisp French fries scattered with soft cheese curds and drowned in hot gravy. The heat of the gravy softens the curds into savory, squeaky pockets throughout the fries.

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Nanaimo Bar (Three-Layer Chocolate Slice)

The Canadian three-layer slice that never sees an oven. Its structure is that each layer is held by a different fat: cooked egg and butter glue the crumb base, butter carrying icing sugar sets the middle firm at fridge temperature, and the cocoa butter in the chocolate crystallises into the top. Why that top shatters the moment a knife touches it — and why the butter stirred into it is structural rather than richness — is what this page is about.