Quebec’s slow but steady cultural takeover of Manhattan nears completion. The New Yorker this week devotes four pages to poutine, but for evidence of the full colonization, listen to Calvin Trillin’s podcast in which he and an editor eat poutine and talk about Canada at a restaurant in the LES. It’s almost like we’re a foreign country or something.
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First, they took Manhattan
Quebec’s slow but steady cultural takeover of Manhattan nears completion. The New Yorker this…
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