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Originally Posted by j8ear
I also remember my mother's pāte chinoise, which is our families version, Quebec style, of a shephard's pie.
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Anybody know why shepherd's pie is called
pāte chinoise in French?
I heard that it comes from the railroad building days back at the turn of the century, when most of the cooks in the construction camps were Chinese. They would often concoct a hearty meal using whatever was at hand (veggies, meat, onions etc) and cover it with mashed potatoes. And since a lot of RR workers were French Canadian too, they called it
pāte chinoise, after the Chinese cooks...
Can anybody verify?