Summary
Mashed potatoes, corn and ground beef. These aren't the ingredients for shepherd's pie, but for Chinese pie, a traditional and very famous French Canadian dish.
WBUR producer Amanda Beland, grew up eating Chinese pie, or pâté chinois, with her French Canadian family. But the pie's origins have always been a culinary mystery. In this episode of Last Seen, Amanda talks to historians and culinary experts to reveal where pâté chinois comes from, and how it might have gotten that name.
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| 1:02.0 | Have you ever noticed how food has a way of being claimed? |
| 1:05.5 | Chicago has its deep dish pizza and then there's New Orleans with the Pope-Boy and New Jersey's |
| 1:11.2 | pork roll or Taylor Ham, depending on who asked, I guess. |
| 1:15.2 | Totally, but for my French Canadian family, nothing beats a Chinese pie, which is a layered |
| 1:20.8 | casserole of ground beef, corn and mashed potatoes on top. |
| 1:25.0 | It kind of looks like a shepherd's pie, but it's not. |
| 1:28.1 | Shepherds pie, I know. |
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