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Life after them is never the same. martin picard is such a man. a heretofore unencountered hybrid of rut outdoorsman, veteran chef with many years of fine dining experience, renegade, innovator, he is one of the most influential chefs in north america. he is also a proud quebecois, and perhaps he more than anyone else has defined for a new generation of americans and canadians what that means. he s an unlikely ambassador for his country and province. but maybe not so unlikely. i mean, look at him. out for a day trapping beaver with local trapper, carl. no? so the bait is wood? yeah, just the bark. they eat the bark? yeah, yeah, yeah. i understand in pioneer days, beaver was the financial engine of canada? ....
50 years from now, will people still be speaking french in montreal? yes. no doubt about it. no doubt about it. french first is something most would agree with. how far and how rigorously you want to go with that? well do you think there was ever any possibility or real majority or plurality of quebecois that would have voted in separate nation status? in english, you guys say timing is everything. right. and timing was never better in the period, 1990, 91, 92. because, in 95 this country came inches one being broken up. do you think it will ever happen? in the history of the world? i don t know, but i know one thing, anybody who says separatism is dead in this country and this province is a fool. no matter how you feel about quebec as either separate from or as an essential part of ....
The quebecois have struggled mightily to hang on to their french heritage and language. the issue of seceding entirely, a notion that persists to some extent even today. journalist patrick meets me at m sur masson, to understand what many feel is at stake. so i was going to talk about the whole history of french quebecoi identity but i have to get to the pressing matter of the day, pasta-gate. what do you want to know? for those not up on current quebec politics, pasta-gate refers to an incident where local authorities notified an italian restaurant that they were in violation of french laws, because they used the word pasta which is italian. this is okay. stop apologizing, okay? don t get me wrong. my last name is bore deign. ....
Changes the whole landscape. life after them is never the same. martin picard is one of those men. innovator, one of the most influential chefs in north america. he is also a proud quebecois, and perhaps he more than everyone else has defined for a new generation what that means. he s an unlikely ambassador for his country and province. maybe not so unlikely. look at him. out for a day trapping beaver with local trapper carl. no? so the bait is wood? yeah, just the bark. they eat the bark? yeah, yeah, yeah. i understand in pioneer days, beaver was the financial engine of canada? empires were built on it. every hat practically in the world was made of a beaver pelt. ....
Mess, but it takes a strange and wonderful kind of mutant to actually find it pleasurable. like, well, these two gentlemen. do you like the cold? i mean, by you, i mean the quebecois. it cleans the streets of ebola. the cold? yeah. the frigid cold keeps the riffraff out of the city, for sure. fred morin, dave mcmillen, restauranteur, chefs at the legendary joe beef, bon vivant, raconteur. historians of their beloved great white north. princes of hospitality. and what do men like this do for fun when the rivers turn to ice three feet thick, when testicles shrink and most of us scurry for warmth and shelter? if they were like so many other canadians, they would go ice fishing on the st. lawrence river. the cabin fever induces in the quebecois family, because we are confined perhaps to spend so much time indoors, a lot of the ....