Dan Delmar: Go ahead and appropriate poutine. Please
Debate surrounding the cultural appropriation of poutine by the rest of Canada seems absurd but calls attention to a related problem: not so much the “Canadization” of a popular junk food but what could be described as the “poutinization” of Québécois cuisine.
“Consumers of the dish must understand,” wrote Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet, a Montrealer whose University of Vermont thesis has received significant media attention, “that it has been
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