Quintessential Canadian cuisine
Broadcast Date: Oct. 10, 2003
Canadians have this to be thankful for: their food. On this Thanksgiving weekend CBC's Ian Brown asks his panellists to pick one food to represent Canada. Food writer Marion Kane picks tourtière, a popular Quebec dish that's older than both the butter tart and the Nanaimo bar. Writer Bill Robertson suggests finishing a meal of tourtière with a slice of saskatoon berry pie. Alison Fryer of Toronto's Cookbook Store chooses another favourite, apple pie made with McIntosh apples accompanied by Canadian cheddar.Quintessential Canadian cuisine
• In 1811, John McIntosh discovered an abandoned stand of apple trees near Dundela, Ont. He transplanted some of the trees to his own land and discovered one particular tree produced what came to be known as the McIntosh apple.
• McIntosh are medium-sized red apples with a green undertone. They have a soft, fine textured flesh with a tangy flavour. According to Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food, McIntosh makes up almost half of Canada's annual apple crop.
• Canada is also famous for peameal bacon, which is made from pork loins. The term peameal comes from the ground yellow peas which coated the bacon ensuring better curing and shelf life. Over the years this tradition was changed to cornmeal due to the availability of corn, but the name peameal has stuck.
• While ginger ale was first invented in Ireland, a Canadian gave us the modern-day ginger ale. John McLaughlin, a chemist and pharmacist, set up a soda pop bottling plant in Toronto in 1890 and began experimenting with different flavours. That resulted in the modern-day formula for ginger ale. In 1904 McLaughlin introduced "Pale Dry Ginger Ale" which was patented as "Canada Dry Ginger Ale" in 1907.
Quintessential Canadian cuisine
Medium: Radio
Program: Talking Books
Broadcast Date: Oct. 10, 2003
Guest(s): Alison Fryer, Marion Kane, Bill Robertson
Host: Ian Brown
Duration: 1:48
Last updated:
April 3, 2008
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While combining Apple Pie with cheese maybe unusal in Scotland it is quite common in England. In Yorkshire it's pretty much the only way to eat it (with Cheddar or Cheshire cheese).
Submitted by: kw