Montreal

2012: The Meals That Were

by James Boo January 8, 2013

Happy Ongoing U.S. Congressional Failure Day New Year! In 2012, The Eaten Path entered its fifth year of food and travel. It’s hard to believe, but easy to stomach. As Zach and I work to push stories onto bigger pages – his into the Creative [...]

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Sugar Shack: A Documentary

by James Boo November 26, 2012

Back when I was eating my way across Montreal, I also made a two-day detour to a town called Rigaud, where I joined forces with the Goddamn Cobras Collective to put together a short documentary about a Quebecois “sugar shack” named Sucrerie de la Montagne. [...]

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Single Serving: 1/2 Chicken With Fries at Rotisserie Ramados

by James Boo July 18, 2012

In recalling the meals I enjoyed and didn’t enjoy over the course of two days in Montreal, two stretches of time struck me as most memorable: a late weeknight session in a charming, perfectly paced, technically-a-restaurant bar called Else’s, and a gut-checked devouring of chicken [...]

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Foie Gras for Lifers

by James Boo July 16, 2012

This is a lifer. In the 1978 documentary film Scared Straight!, this angry, one-eyed man – sentenced to “life and now on” for murder – shouted down a group of teenagers as part of a program aiming to prevent at-risk juveniles from becoming eternal inmates, [...]

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Gronlandic Edit (or Three Meals in Montreal)

by James Boo June 18, 2012

The moment our car rolled out of customs and onto U.S. soil, I turned on my phone and punched “craigslist” into the browser. Rifling through listings for summer sublets, I tucked our stay into a corner of memory where hindsight and foresight are blind spots. [...]

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