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Acadian Buckwheat Flatbread
Ploye
An Acadian buckwheat flatbread, thin and holey, griddled and served with butter and molasses or as a wrap.
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Atlantic Canada, Canada
Acadian Fricot
Fricot
Acadian stew with meat (chicken, clams, or rabbit), potatoes, onions, and dumplings, Maritime comfort food.
Atlantic Canada, Canada
Acadian Grated Potato Dumpling
Poutine râpée
Traditional Acadian boiled potato dumpling with pork filling, mixture of grated and mashed potato, Christmas dish.
Canada
Acerum
A Canadian spirit made by aging apple brandy in oak barrels that previously held maple syrup, yielding a sweet, smoky liqueur.
Canada
All-Dressed Chips
Chips tout garni
True Canadian flavor combining sweet, salty, and savory flavors, uniquely Canadian potato chip variety from Quebec.
Atlantic Canada, Canada
Atlantic Lobster Roll
Lobster roll
Fresh cold-water Atlantic lobster piled high on buttered toasted bun, lightly dressed with mayonnaise or butter.
Canada
B-52 Cocktail
A layered shooter cocktail of coffee liqueur, Irish cream, and orange liqueur, traditionally flamed on top.
Atlantic Canada, Canada
Bakeapple pie
A Newfoundland and Labrador pie made with bakeapples (cloudberries), a tart orange berry found in bogs.
Atlantic Canada, Canada
Bakeapples
Small pink-orange cloudberries growing in bogs, tasting like peach-apricot with tartness, prized Newfoundland delicacy.
Canada
Bannock
Fried or baked bread dough, Indigenous and Métis traditional food, staple across Canada from Scottish fur traders.
Canada
Bannock Tacos
Tacos au bannock
Indigenous fusion dish using bannock as taco shell, topped with chili, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Vancouver, Canada
BC Roll
Sushi roll with grilled salmon skin and cucumber, invented in Vancouver in 1974, British Columbia sushi innovation.
Canada
Beaver Tails
Queues de castor
Fried whole wheat pastry shaped like a beaver tail, topped with cinnamon sugar, chocolate, or other toppings.
Canada
Birch syrup
A Canadian and northern-US syrup tapped from birch trees, thinner and darker than maple with a distinct wintergreen note.
Canada
Blueberry Buckle
Coffee cake with wild blueberries and streusel topping, traditional Maritime and Ontario dessert.
Atlantic Canada, Canada
Blueberry Grunt
Stewed wild blueberries with dumpling topping, steamed cobbler dessert from Nova Scotia.
Ontario, Canada
Butter Tarts
Small pastry tarts filled with butter, sugar, syrup, and egg, a quintessentially Canadian dessert since 1900.
Canada
Caesar Cocktail
Caesar
Canada's national cocktail of vodka, clam juice, tomato juice, spices, and Worcestershire, rimmed with celery salt.
Canada
Canadian Whisky
Whisky canadien
Blended whisky typically lighter and smoother, corn-based with rye for flavor, terms rye and Canadian interchangeable.
Quebec, Canada
Caribou Cocktail
Caribou
A Canadian cocktail of red wine, whisky or rye, and maple syrup, heated and spiced — a Quebec winter favorite.
British Columbia, Canada
Cedar-Plank Salmon
Saumon sur planche de cèdre
Salmon cooked on cedar plank, Indigenous technique, BC specialty with smoky cedar flavor.
Canada
Cheese Curds
Fresh, squeaky white cheese curds, the essential topping of poutine, made from unaged cheddar.
Canada
Chicken Balls
Boulettes de poulet
Breaded and fried chicken balls served with sweet and sour sauce, Canadian Chinese restaurant staple.
Canada
Chop Suey
Stir-fried vegetables with meat, Canadian Chinese adaptation, staple of Canadian Chinese restaurant menus.
Quebec, Canada
Christ's Ears
Oreilles de crisse
Deep-fried salted pork rinds served at sugar shacks as salty crunchy side to maple syrup-laden foods.
Atlantic Canada, Canada
Cod Tongues
Muscle from back of cod throat, traditionally battered and fried in pork fat, topped with scrunchions.
Canada
Coffee Crisp
Canadian chocolate bar since 1939, crispy wafer with coffee crème filling covered in thin chocolatey coating.
Canada
Date Squares
Matrimonial cake
Layered dessert with buttery oatmeal crumb layers sandwiching sweet date paste, known across Canada.
Halifax, Canada
Donair Sauce
Sauce donair
Sweet garlicky sauce made from evaporated milk, sugar, vinegar, and garlic, essential accompaniment to Halifax donairs.
Canada
Double-Double
Coffee with two creams and two sugars, Tim Hortons ordering terminology to Canadian culture.
Northern Ireland, Canada
Dulse
Duileasc
An Irish edible red seaweed, a coastal and ancient snack
Quebec, Canada
Eggs in Aspic
Œufs en gelée
A Quebec dish of poached eggs set in aspic (savory gelatin), often with ham or vegetables — a classic cold appetizer.
Winnipeg, Canada
Fat Boy Burger
Fat boy
Winnipeg burger with smashed patty, cheese, beef chili spiced with cinnamon, pickles, lettuce, onion, tomato, mayo and mustard.
Atlantic Canada, Canada
Fiddleheads
Fougères
Curled edible shoots of ostrich fern, harvested for few weeks each spring, traditional Acadian and Maritime dish.
Atlantic Canada, Canada
Figgy Duff
Traditional bag pudding of breadcrumbs, raisins, brown sugar, molasses, butter, and spices, boiled in cloth.
Atlantic Canada, Canada
Fish and Brewis
Traditional Newfoundland meal of salted cod, salt pork, and hardtack biscuits, served with scrunchions.