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I need some advice.

Our family will be hosting an exchange student from Montreal for a month. She arrives this Sunday. She's part of a group of 20 17-year-olds girls and they will attend school during the day and have weekends free. School field trips include Disneyland, Hollywood, San Diego and Laguna Beach.

She's studied English for four years and we have been told not to speak French at home. (No problem since the only languages we know are igpeh atinleh and all the foul words in Spanish, Polish, German and Tagalog.)

The only 'traditional comfort food' we've been told about is french fries with gravy. :tongue

Any suggestions for some traditional foods we should have in the fridge?

If you were coming to the LA area, what other attractions would you want to visit? (Remember to think like a girl. ;) )
 
FIrst of all, it is not french fries and gravy. The Quebecer's invented a food that is called a poutine. THat is french fries, with gravy and cheese morzarella curls. THe cheese is put on top of the fries and gravy on top which melts the cheese. Now some restaurents uses shreeded cheese to make htis dish, but it is not as nice a cheese curls and fresh CUT FRIES.

Second dish, she probably have tried in Montreal is Montreal Smoked Meat. This sandwich is STEAMED smoked meat serve high on Rye Bread with a pickle on the side. A real Greak restaurent may have this dish.

As a teenager, I am sure you will not have no problems feeding this young lady. THey all have the tradional fast food place there. However you may want to bring her to place where it is a little bit different then the normal type restaurent, like a autentic chinese restaurant.

For place to visit for a young teenager: A big freaking mall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have fun
Luc
Born in La belle province de Quebec!

P.S. Do you know how to make the french canadian meat pie? or Une pouding CHomeur? or un raguout the patte de cochon? Mmmmmmmmmm good!!!!
Luc
 
I can tell you that she will eat the same things that the teenagers eat in california! Sounds like she will love the attractions you are taking her to. The universal connection is often music. If she likes bands, my daughter loves to travel to the US to go the the store Hot Topic, we have nothing like it in Canada. Also, do you have the store Steve and Barry's, another fav of my teens! I am sure just the sights and sounds will be great for her as well. What a great thing to do. We have had exchange students from Eurpope and it has always been a great experience and has resulted in some life long friends. The language barrier is usually minor, but you may find you are waving your hands around a lot the first few days! Have fun.
 
I bet she might like Mexican food. I have a feeling if there is any Mexican food in Canada, it's not great. I'm sure you have some great authentic Mexican places in your area (my mouth waters thinking of it).

I have a friend in Calgary that I visit every couple of years. Her family served me pierogi. I know they have Polish roots, but might this be a Canadian thing as well??? I don't know. Anyway, I LOVED them. I think you can find them sometimes frozen in bags (I've had no luck, tho). You boil them, then fry them in a little oil til golden brown. Then serve with sour cream, bacon bits, green onions, and I can't remember what else. But they were GREAT!

Beth :~)
 
Ah Beth... we have great Mexican and Latin food restaurants here. London has a huge Latin community with the foods to go with it. One of our summer festivals is Sunfest... latin born, with music from all over latin America (and the rest of the world) and food to knock your socks off. Check out this site for all the info...

http://www.mrshawn.com/sunfest/

Cathy, enjoy your exchange student. She will adapt very well. Montreal is the bastion of English speaking Quebec, so communication shouldn't be too difficult.

My French exchange student (when I was in Rotary) became like my son. He is who I visit when in France.

V
 
Victoria said:
Ah Beth... we have great Mexican and Latin food restaurants here. London has a huge Latin community with the foods to go with it. One of our summer festivals is Sunfest... latin born, with music from all over latin America (and the rest of the world) and food to knock your socks off. Check out this site for all the info...

http://www.mrshawn.com/sunfest/
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Ooops, sorry, V. I misspoke... I shouldn't assume... we all know what assuming does, right? LOL

Beth :~)
 
Beth said:
Ooops, sorry, V. I misspoke... I shouldn't assume... we all know what assuming does, right? LOL

Beth :~)
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No ay problema senora bonita. :)

V
 
The perfect comfort food spring, summer, fall, winter

The perfect food for your Canadian guest and for yourself and your whole family is (she probably brought some of her own)


RED RIVER CEREAL.


I think I'll go and have some now to help celebrate Canada Day



Doug
 
Thanks. Never heard of it although I am somewhat fearful of a product with a claim of having ridiculously healthy ingredients. ;)

Luc's mozzarella with french fries and gravy sound more like it. :tongue

Missy, we have a Hot Topic in the local mall. Good idea.

Needless to say, there's Mexican food a plenty here. If she's adventurous, we'll also hit our favorite shabu shabu, sushi, Filipino and Thai spots.
 
This is a cultural exchange.

She will want to experience Californian foods.

You could plan a California Gold Rush Dinner and serve Beans and biscuits.

How about an Arnold The Govenator Dinner. foods from his native Austria like those big susages and cabbage with some local fare.

Cathy you are very creative the sky is the limit.

Now look what you have done, you have made me hungry:hammer:
 
If you try the red river stuff , be sure your house is well stocked on TP, you will need it ( and maybe preperation H).











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Doug, you are a very very very bad man. I'm laughing myself sillier here on my lunch hour where RRC is banned... much like my little place to live.

:)

V
 
Back to Poutine.

I think you are supposed to use cheese curds. The frys have to very very hot so that the cheese curds will melt and then you add the gravy et voila Poutine.

You then eat up and then lay down and wait for the Para-medics to come and re-start your heart. The young lady should know the code for this it is

Code Bleu
 
Poutine... gross in so many ways. But people travel for miles to get a good plateful. For me, it's just wrong to treat perfectly good fries with such total disrespect.

V
 
Had poutine once, have had no desire for more. LOL

Red River Cereal.. I assume it's very high in fiber?

Beth :~)
 
Two Words- Rodeo Drive

Posh shops, possible star sightings... typical Beverly Hills stereotype-like sites would be great fun!

On another note -- one of the gals from our shop, Polly Berginc, is being inducted into AIFD this year - I told her to look you up if she got a chance.

Have fun with the exchange student - Rosie will love having a "big sister"!

Kathy
 
CHR said:
If you were coming to the LA area, what other attractions would you want to visit? (Remember to think like a girl. ;) )
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Cathy, Here are a few suggestions:

A) Third Street Promenade/Santa Monica Pier
B) Universal CityWalk
C) Six Flags Magic Mountain

Have fun!
 
She is just darling. Her name is Claudia and she is from Matane, not Montreal. It took a 6 hour car ride to Montreal and a 6 hour plane ride to LA to get here.

Her English is pretty good but we're stumbling trying to remember how to convert miles into kilometers, gallons into litres and fahrenheit into celsius.

No poutine for this girl, either. At breakfast we had a meeting of the minds - Cheerios. Dinner was good old-fashioned American spaghetti. :)

Shopping and the beaches do appear to be the activities of choice.

I haven't yet mentioned Red River Cereal because form the sound of things, she might throw something at me or run away.
 
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