The poutine is a traditional Canadian dish, or so I was told, so one afternoon I went to a tiny restaurant called La Poutine to try it out.
It turned out to be fried potatoes with a cheese quite similar to mozzarella, completely drowned in gravy. I wouldn’t call it a dish. It’s more like a last minute solution if you have nothing else in the fridge and can’t bother to go to the supermarket. It isn’t that it’s not tasty, it’s just that it isn’t cooking. If this is typically Canadian, I feel a little worried about the state of the Canadian kitchen.
Katja Malmborg 