civilized ku # 254 ~ good soup
Stracciatelle • click to embiggenEver since our recent trip to Tuscany, the wife has been on quite an Italian bent. So, we went to Montreal's Little Italy to visit a big market where I purchased a little 6×6 inch artery-clogging chocolate pastry thing that I swear must weight about 50 lbs. and I also had a bowl of very good stracciatelle - Italian egg-drop soup, which, unlike Chinese egg-drop soup, has parmesan cheese as an ingredient.
However, I found it quite weird to be in a Little Italy and eating in an Italian restaurant where the first language was French. Really, it was very weird and more than a bit disconcerting.
Posted on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 12:24PM
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That market would be the Marché Jean-Talon named after Jean Talon (1626-1694) the first governor of New France.
http://www.marche-jean-talon.com/
As for french, it's the official language of Québec (1974) while Canada has both french and english as official languages.
One of the most popular tv show in Québec is that of Josée di Stasio's
http://aladistasio.telequebec.tv/
Here's another popular tv show taped live, at the Marché Jean-Talon:
http://www.radio-canada.ca/television/des_kiwis_et_des_hommes/index.asp
It ain't exactly Toscany but MTL looks great through your lens.
Mleg