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How This Restaurant Is Trying to Start a Poutine Craze Around the World

A Canadian franchise is taking poutine to the next gut-busting level.
Spud stud: Ryan Smolkin of Smoke’s Poutinerie.

Every night the corporate office of Smoke’s Poutinerie in Toronto receives a fax from the boss, an enigmatic hermit known simply as Smoke. The ’80s-obsessed culinary genius sends his instructions from the wilderness near the border of Quebec and Ontario, where he dreams up new and unusual flavor combinations while playing Atari and arranging his vast collection of Cabbage Patch Kids and He-Man action figures.

That’s the legend

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