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Home-made steak. Poutine à la Vladimir at Frites Alors!. A Jo-cooked goose. A Jo-cooked goose pie. French-language Lebanese food. Francophone Greek food consisting of lumps of roast lamb. A Jo-cooked shepherd's pie, followed by a pie consisting essentially of caramel and raisins in a piecrust which was too rich even for me.

Other than food, the Biodome (an indoor zoo; beavers, porcupines, lynx, golden tamarin monkeys, penguins!); the orchid gardens of the Botanic Gardens many of whose collected Useful Plants I had seen in more fruitful form in places where they grow without needing glasshouses and special heaters; today, a museum in the Napoleonic fort on an island in the icy Saint-Laurent, including a collection of rich-production-values high-school physics demonstrations made during the Enlightenment for the education of ignorant-of-physics but fond-of-spectacle German princelings.

Portrait photography of some of the people I'm staying with, it being a time suitable for the renewal of memberships at places requiring photo-ID on family membership tickets.

Friday, we head by train to Quebec City, one of the earlier major settlements in North America (1602, I think), and one of the larger remaining walled cities.

Query

Date: 2006-01-06 02:31 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
What is a home-made steak? Do your hosts keep a cow or are they growing edible protein in petri-dishes? Glad you're keeping fed.

Re: Query

Date: 2006-01-06 06:18 pm (UTC)
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
From: [personal profile] redbird
Home-made steak means that [livejournal.com profile] papersky cooked it, rather than our going to one of the fine restaurants [livejournal.com profile] fivemack mentioned, or one of Montreal's other fine establishments.

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