I grew up in an ocean of French on the outskirts of Trois-Rivières. However, from an early age, I felt more at ease operating in English, and, though it was never my explicit intention, began focusing ...

Heading back for my 6th year to the Smoke's Poutine World Poutine Eating Championship, I’m preparing by cooking up some ...

Poutine quietly emerged in France in 2014 with the opening of Poutinebros in Rennes, followed by La Maison de la Poutine in Paris a few years later. The majority of poutine in France is concentrated ...

Poutine has a controversial origin story. The fight has mostly centered around two Quebec restaurants—”Le Roy Jucep” in Drummondville and “Le Lutin qui rit” in Warwick, who both claim to have invented ...

Matt Blitz is a broadcast and print journalist, who has reported for CNN, Smithsonian Magazine, Washingtonian Magazine, and The Washington Post. Based in Arlington, Virginia, Matt is currently a news ...

Declared one of Canada’s best inventions, the mess of chips, curd cheese and gravy is a deeply rooted culinary tradition that can span from the classic to the avant-garde. The day began eight hours ...

Perhaps you’re a poutine purist who enjoys the much-loved Quebecois dish as the traditional combination of fries, cheese ...

For us, poutine remains one of those curious civic emblems, a totem of collective identity that is both common and ...

But that hasn’t stopped a Quebec town from re-appropriating the poutine’s history for its own benefit in a recent tourism ad starring local personality Frédéric Bastien Forrest. Drummondville, a city ...

The unofficial national dish of Canada, poutine is a polarizing culinary creation. “People love it or they hate it,” says Malcolm Campbell, executive chef at Cabot Cape Breton. “There isn’t a middle ...

The difference between the words Putin and poutine is probably enough to protect most American poutine-serving restaurants from facing complaints about a connection to Vladimir Putin. The same can’t ...

SEOUL, South Korea — When native South Koreans hear the word “poutine” for the first time, they usually think “Putin.” As in, Vladimir Putin. So says Ellie Kim, the 33-year-old store owner of Oh!