Traditional Cuisine

Most famous for its tourtières, pea soup, baked beans, cretons, ham dishes, boulettes, stew of pig legs, maple desserts and St. Catherine's taffy, Quebec's traditional cuisine is today being rediscovered as rich and diverse as its immense territory. A tourtière is a meat pie originating from Quebec, usually made with ground pork and/or veal, or beef. ... Dutch pea soup Pea soup is soup made, typically, from dried split peas. ... Baked beans and scrambled egg on toast. ... Part of a traditional Québec breakfast, cretons are a meat spread similar to rillettes, usually made with pork. ... For other meanings of ham or Ham, see Ham (disambiguation). ... The MAPLE (Multipurpose Applied Physics Lattice Experiment) dedicated isotope-production facility is a current project jointly undertaken by AECL and MDS Nordion. ...

The temps des sucres (sugar season) is one of the oldest of Quebec culinary traditions. During springtime, many Quebecers go to cabanes à sucre (sugar shacks) for a traditional meal that features eggs, baked beans, ham, oreilles de Christ, and bacon, which they then cover in maple syrup. Associated activities are a horse-drawn sleigh ride in the woods and tire sur la neige- boiled maple syrup dribbled over snow, which then hardens, and is eaten as a treat. Oreilles de Christ (French, literally translates to Christs ears) is a popular dish in Québec. ... A sugarshack where sap is boiled down to maple syrup. ...

Many traditional dishes are intrinsic to holidays. Réveillon, the Christmas Eve (or New Year's Eve) "feast," usually features items like bûche de Noël and tourtière. In France and some other French-speaking countries, a réveillon is a long dinner, and possibly a party, held on the evenings preceding Christmas and New Years Day. ... A traditional Bûche de Noël, made with a Génoise cake and chocolate buttercream, and garnished with powdered sugar, raspberries, and spruce boughs. ...

Contemporary Cuisine

Contemporary Quebec cuisine is characterized by an innovative use of all things native to the land which are then prepared following all contemporary trends of the world.

Famous products of contemporary Quebec cuisine include poutine, Le Riopelle de l'Isle cheese, and whippet cookies. The Jewish community of Montreal has contributed Montreal-style bagels and smoked meat which is similar to pastrami. Poutine (pronounced, roughly, poo-tsin; exact Quebecer pronunciation is IPA — listen to it in . ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Whippet cookies are a popular type of chocolate cookie, produced in Montreal, Canada. ... The Montreal bagel is one of the best-known varieties of bagel. ... Smoked Meat sandwich, served with coleslaw, potato chips and half a pickle Smoked meat is a dish which originated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Pastrami Pastrami is a popular deli meat made from (chiefly red) meat. ...

External links

• The Worldwide Gourmet presents the flavors of Quebec
• Traditional Québec Cuisine
• Culinary Pleasures in Quebec
• Le Québec dans votre assiette (in French)