Culinary historian Ian Mosby takes a look at the cookbook from Montreal restaurant Joe Beef, which is maybe not entirely accurate as it pertains to the real life person Joe Beef, but still: "Perhaps tall tales and half-histories are essential to the act of imagining and inventing culinary traditions across time and space. Taste is, indeed, personal and the food at the original Joe Beef’s Canteen was probably awful. This imagined Montreal ... looks to me like a vibrant, living cuisine – grounded in Montreal’s past – and looking confidently to the future." [Active History]
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