Of the ” kickass pancakes with blueberries”, lemon and pistachio bars, a “ cookies giant with cranberries »… Is it Canadian recipes? According to SHE France, yes ! After an article published in 2016 on Ricardo Larrivee which described him as a “gentleman trapper”, the magazine does it again with an offbeat and – according to many – folkloric vision of Quebec.
Posted at 12:33 p.m.
Contacted on Tuesday by The Press about the article, the editor of the digital of SHE France apologized. “We are sincerely sorry that our recipes and our presentation of the chef [Ricardo Larrivée (en 2016)] may have offended our Quebec friends. We are going to unpublish the article of these recipes on the ELLE.FR site in the next few hours, so as not to further fuel the controversy, ”responded in writing the editor Julie Dessagne.
The article published on October 13 — and unpublished this Tuesday morning — on the website of SHE at the table gives a short summary of the origins of Canadian cuisine where “many recipes […] trace their origin to France, England or Scotland, but also more recently to East Asia”.
We then talk about traditional Canadian dishes, mentioning the famous poutine, tourtière, shepherd’s pie, but also the Johnny cake (!).
Twelve recipes are then presented as Canadian and perfect “to celebrate the fall season”: caramelized butternut risotto with maple syrup from Trish Deseine, a Quebec pork and cranberriesof the kickass pancakes with blueberries, a Quebec vegetarian shepherd’s pie, ketchup with cranberrieslemon and pistachio bars, raisin and pecan pie, a cake pecan nuts and maple syrup, chicory-coffee ice cream, baked beans, a cookies giant with cranberries and maple syrup and a Pumpkin Pie with speculoos.
The magazine SHE France had already sparked controversy in Quebec after the publication of an article devoted to Ricardo Larrivee which was punctuated with cliches. The journalist later defended himself by saying that he had used certain expressions because they “make us dream”.