Feasting in the Northern Oceans of Medieval Academia. The Language of Cheese : comments.
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On Cheese - YES! I can't wait to go to Europe on next year's trip if only to have more cheese.
I just went to a restaurant in montreal called "Toque!" where we had the most wonderful cheese platter, and it was remarked by my companion that we couldn't get cheeses that good in the US, mostly because US cheeses have to be pasteurized. Also because most people in the US have no taste for good food.
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Was it a good restaurant? Worth going back to? I'm sure I'll be back in Montreal at some point and it's always worth knowing about good places to eat!
It's easy to say people in the US have no taste for good food, but I'm not sure it's true. I mostly think that lack of exposure = lack of knowledge about food options = lack of demand for it. There are bright sides, and lots of people involved in the ongoing task of trying to change that. For example, friends of my family are involved in the US's first "real" prosciutto-making native operation. And not all good food is a foreign import either, especially when it comes to really tasty things to do with meat. One of the things I regularly miss most when not living in the US (unfortunately, New England doesn't count, it's no good for this either) is real barbecue. Mmm... barbecue ribs.
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Oh my god yes. Toque (on St. Denis) was the best food I've *ever* had. I also had the best sushi ever up there - Kaizen on St. Catherine's.
As for America - hmmm...I guess I'm pretty happy in Boston, with lots of local restaurants and most people I know here are willing to try new things. However, when it comes to the people I work with outside the city, they would rather go to TGIF every day than try something new, and I find that depressing.