Our national mascot’s a damn beaver
O Canada we love our beaver
home of Hell’s Angels the RCMP
home of Gordon Lightfoot and SCTV

Chicago, San Francisco, and of course New York; you can find poutine in more and more places throughout the world. And Portlanders may have more poutine choices than any other city not in Canada. I spoke to Mr. Allemang about my, and Portland’s, poutine obsession for the article.

In the latest issue of The Guardian, columnist Peter Preston writes about Cascadia, in A World Away From Texas [can I get an atheist amen!?]

The 97th Grey Cup takes place this Sunday, November 29th. There’s no better time to whip up a batch of homemade poutine!

I am proud to announce that Portland Poutine has published it’s first poutine review (by yours truly!). Heather and I made a special trip to The Original: A Dinerant two weekends ago to try the poutine, and we were not disappointed.

A Photo Essay Priming by way of biere.

It’s become a personal joke that every travel article written about Portland contains at least one factual error and the odds are even that the phrase “at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers” will rear its head. Joseph Blake’s Portland travel article for the Calgary Herald, West coast cool, does not submit to [...]

Update: If you’re looking for Poutine in Portland, check out our new site: Portland Poutine! With the Coupe Grey in Montreal fast approaching, this seems an opportune time to revisit my favorite French-Canadian invention: poutine! Over a year ago I beseeched the blog readers of Portland to reveal to me the location of poutine in [...]

Update: Alas, other geniuses have already invented my invention Potato chips are the topic of a recent post on my favorite Canadian blog, XUP. Here’s a sample: They’re Lay’s Classic. Shiny yellow, red and white bag. The King of Chips. Every one perfection. No brown rims of leftover peel. No green aliens. No overcooked freaks. [...]

Grab your toque, the 96th Grey Cup takes place this Sunday, November 23rd.  The Grey Cup is the Canadian Football League’s championship game; think of it as the Canadian Super Bowl. This year’s matchup, Calgary Stampeders versus Montreal Alouettes, takes place in Montreal. The game is being broadcast locally on Versus, Comcast Cable channel 32. [...]