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i bought this cookbook because i came across an article about how Dave McMillan had changed his life and embraced sobriety. As an Ex Montrealer around the same age as the authors, I was instantly drawn in by their references in both words and images to a Montreal that only those over 45 years old remember. I too get homesick cravings for the food I ate growing up; casse-croute hot dogs and greasy fries, cheesy pizza on a dough crust with a bun in the middle, Molson Ex, smoked meat, Montreal BBQ gravy. When i visit i often hit up my old favorites, yet i am always disappointed. The memories are better than the food, and it's not even healthy, and Molson Ex is a terrible beer, no matter how many good times I had after 12 of them. It's true that you can't go home again, because the food was never that good, and it doesn't deserve recreation here.
It's not really a collection of recipes (and the title honestly claims to be only a "cookbook of sorts"), as much as it is a reminder of meals, places and people from the authors lives from days and eras long gone. A casse-croute that you stopped at on the way to the cottage; a bag of stale biscuits that you ate with cottage cheese while hungover in your dark St Henri basement flat. These may be eat moments to which we can all relate, but as recipes they are less appealing. A hamburger drowned in Catalina salad dressing is neither good nor interesting food. This is the kind of cookbook Douglas Coupland would write; attempts at irony in an effort to tell a story about another time. The problem is the recipes are way too complicated and time consuming, and unless you are a professional, I can't see how making, serving and even eating these recipes would be worth it.
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