Like many, I still am delightedly astonished that Barack Obama is our president. Imagine--he bolts from his limo in search of a snow globe, on his first trip to Canada, in fact his first official foreign visit. Then insists on a stop at a French bakery where he tried to buy maple-leaf-shaped cookies for his daughters. The baker refused his money.
"As he left, a woman emerged with the one local favorite Obama had heard a great deal about _ a deep-fried pastry known as Beaver Tail." As this blog relates: "Essentially a Canadian version of the donut, the dough is made into the flat shape of a beavers tail and flavoured with lemon, maple syrup and cinnamon."
Apparently discussion of pastry occupied a few minutes of Obama's meeting with Canada's opposition leader, Michael Ignatieff.
According to the AP report, " The two chatted briefly at the start about the pastry, which the president had tried and described as delicious.
He added that in Chicago, "we have some stuff that will thicken the arteries."
This guy is REAL. And he notices food.....
( Tks to http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/?p=565 for photo.)
Interesting post! and that donut looks so yummy. Wish I can also go there and have a taste of it myself. Anyway, I've been looking for topics as interesting as this. Looking forward to your next post.
-megan-
Posted by: Red Ribbon Bakery | November 22, 2009 at 07:30 PM