It definitely comes from the top down. The Maritimes are similar to the South. Very small towns, a little diner filled with actual farmers, a piece of fish with mashed potatoes and gravy for $7. It’s slower, it’s humble, and I think that’s a good representation of Canada.

The cities are different. Montreal is still very Quebecois, Ottawa is its own beast. Toronto is such an eclectic, beautiful, ethnic-driven city. In Toronto, people found their homes and built out their communities. That trickles through generations into different cuisines. People ask, “What’s Canadian cuisine? Indigenous?” Well, we wiped that history. So I don’t know. It’s a bunch of white dudes eating fish and mashed potatoes.

One buddy says Canadian cuisine is beige and unremarkable. Boiled turnips, rutabagas, some salt pork. My dad’s a Newfie and grew up eating Jiggs dinner, which is like, you boil up the whole dinner in the fucking thing, and serve it with mustard pickles.

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