AUBURN — A winding, 87-foot, wooden bar top is installed. There is room for a dozen 275-gallon tanks. And one-quarter of an actual food truck is mounted on a wall. Side By Each Brewing Co. and The Poutine Factory are nearly ready to open. The new businesses, announced last summer, are in the former, 10,480-square-foot […]
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French food and games highlight festival in Lewiston
LEWISTON — French fries, cheese curds and gravy created a winning blend Saturday at the inaugural L/A Poutine Feast-ival. Oxford Street was filled with the smell of fresh poutine and the Dolard & Priscilla Gendron Franco Center was filled with excited pichenotte tournament players. Event organizer Francis Gagnon said all of the food aside from […]
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First L/A Festival Weekend at three Lewiston sites
Editor’s note: The dates in the version of this story that ran in Monday’s paper were inaccurate. The dates have been corrected in this version and new material has been added. LEWISTON — Greek food. Poutine. Pichenotte. Song and dance. And more song and dance. All that and more is promised at the first L/A […]
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Poutine: A French-Canadian classic now defined in the dictionary
French-Canadian classic has the power to satisfy or offend in one comfort-food bite.:Mark LaFlamme explains poutine NEW YORK (AP) — Mainers may not need a dictionary to understand poutine, but Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary is happy to define it for the rest of the world. The French Canadian snack or side dish of french fries covered with […]
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Poutine: French-Canadian classic has the power to satisfy or offend in one comfort-food bite.
Let’s get this pronunciation thing right out of the way, shall we? My tongue wants to call the stuff POO-tin, as if I’m addressing the Russian president. Others, meanwhile, insist that it’s POO-teen, which to me just sounds filthy. Is anybody right? Is everybody wrong? Time to find an expert. “The first part is phonetically […]