Soupe aux pois is Quebec's yellow split pea soup, simmered with salt pork, onion and herbs into a thick, smoky bowl of sugar-shack and winter tables; in Canada we have verified places to eat it in Montreal. Start with where to eat Soupe aux pois in Montreal.
Soupe aux pois · Montreal
Soupe aux pois is Quebec's yellow split pea soup, simmered with salt pork, onion and herbs into a thick, smoky bowl of sugar-shack and winter tables.
Yellow pea soup goes back to New France, when dried peas and salt pork were winter staples that kept for months. It became so identified with the province that Quebecers were once nicknamed pea-soupers. It remains a fixture of the cabane a sucre menu each spring. In Montreal it still turns up on cabane a sucre menus and in home kitchens through the winter, a cheap, warming bowl tied tightly to the province's identity.
Where to eat Soupe aux pois in Montreal: the editor picks