Breakfast is just over, but as usual I'm thinking about food. Came across this
great story about Thunder Bay, its Finnish connection and Labour strife there. The centre is a restaurant called Hoito.
"Founded as a cooperative in 1918, the basement restaurant is a vestige of a period in Canadian history when radical labor unions urged general strikes as part of their campaign for economic and social revolution. It is also a symbol of the several waves of immigrants from Finland who flocked here to work in this paper-mill town, railway junction and port on Lake Superior," says NYT writer Ian Austen.
"But in some ways, it is food that has conquered all. Even in its heyday as a political hotbed, the place was best known as a destination for a solid meal. Today the Hoito is arguably Canada’s most famous pancake house, particularly beloved for its formidable Finnish pancakes."
Many summers ago we bought great sausages at a deli in Thunder Bay and cooked them when we camped outside town. Still think about them, longingly. Maybe we ought to go back, says she at the beginning of a summer when we're likely to stay on the island of Montreal.
Published on May 20, 2015 05:49