Now that road trip season is upon us, this new book about Canada’s roadside food stands is getting lots of play.
For 10 years, illustrators Chantal Bennett and Joel Kimmel have taken road trips around Canada searching for the best chip stands, interviewing the owners and celebrating these colorful food stops in drawings and paintings.
With amusing histories of the chip wagon and the casse-croûtes of Quebec, Bennett and Kimmel also cover the history of the Pogo and how to make the perfect poutine.
Joel Kimmel’s website with spreads from the book, here.
Chantal Bennett’s website, here with individual images of chip stands.
Listen to these artists on an 8-minute CBC radio interview, here.
A long feature in Macleans magazine, here.
(Image in banner at top of post: Fries R’ Us, St. Thomas, Ontario, below)
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This takes me back to my times on the road in Canada in the 1960’s, I’d have starved without the roadside stands!
So true about the lure of a chip stand while travelling. And I can’t count the number of times I’ve stopped at one on a two-lane highway in the GTA while commuting because traffic tie-ups made me savagely hungry. Those stands eliminate “hangry.”