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Canadian Foodways

National

⚠ A COUNTRY WITH NO SINGLE CUISINE AND AN UNUSUAL HONESTY ABOUT IT. Canada spans six time zones and its food is regional before it is national: the ATLANTIC cod, lobster and Acadian kitchen; QUÉBEC, which is a distinct food culture in a distinct language; ONTARIO and the Great Lakes; the PRAIRIES of wheat, beef and a very large Ukrainian and Mennonite inheritance; BRITISH COLUMBIA on salmon and the Pacific; and the NORTH, where Inuit and Dene foodways are the food system and the grocery store is an aeroplane away. Over that: FIRST NATIONS, INUIT and MÉTIS foodways that predate all of it, and the immigration that has made Toronto and Vancouver among the most plural food cities anywhere. ⚠ TEN PROVINCES AND THREE TERRITORIES, and MAPLE, which is genuinely national and genuinely Indigenous in origin.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Canadians community documented

Languages: English, French

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to American documented

    A shared continent, a shared Indigenous geography that the border cuts through, and constant food traffic in both directions.

  • related to British Foodways documented
  • related to French documented

    New France, and a French-speaking food culture that persisted through British rule and is now Québec.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • migrated to Haitian Diaspora Foodways documented

    Montréal holds one of the largest Haitian communities outside Haiti, and Haitian Creole is a major community language there.

  • migrated to Jamaican Diaspora Foodways documented

    Toronto, and Little Jamaica on Eglinton West.

Regional cuisines

Recipes

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