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As I travel across Quebec on a quest to understand the province, and reach out to our Canadian readers, it is becoming abundantly clear that a way to unlock Quebec’s identity is through its stomach.

“You can’t understand Quebec without understanding their love to eat,” Sylvain Riel, a New York Times reader from Granby, Quebec, who now lives in Kingston, Ontario, told us.