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Amie Watson - Midnight Poutine
Amie Watson is a food writer living in Montreal where she blogs for Midnight Poutineas well as her own cooking and restaurant review blogs, Multiculturiosityand Interculturiosity. She does a weekly food segment and co-hosts CKUT 90.3FM’s “The Friday Morning After Show” from 7-9am every Friday, bright and early. For her, cooking is a way to share a lifetime’s worth of experiences, values, and the simple pleasures of eating. She throws her whole heart into local, sustainable, and organic food whenever possible, hunting through the city’s farmer’s markets and restaurants for the perfect ingredient, the perfect flavour, or the perfect culinary experience. When she’s not doing something food-related, Amie co-hosts the Midnight Poutine Podcast– a weekly offering of music from bands playing in Montreal each weekend. For more of her own writing (recipes, restaurant, festival and other Montreal reviews) as well as local news, movie listings, events, art, theatre and culture, check out Midnight Poutine.
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"How to Get More Than 750mL of Alcohol into Piknic Electronik", and Other Picnic Recipes
At Piknic Electronik, a meal can mean PB&J's with a bottle of Dep wine, a pic-a-nic basket of Quebec raw cheeses, organic breads, dried figs and terrines with a bottle of something expensive, or a few cans of beer and baguette. Unfortunately, Montreal puts a legal limit on the amount of alcohol you can consume in public, as if we're not all responsible adults. So you can only bring one 750mL bottle of wine or 3 regular sized cans (or two tall cans) of beer to Piknic Electronik per person, but with a well-planned meal you can get around that problem pretty easily. Sure, a bottle of wine is a fair bit, but if you're hanging out for 7 hours at a picnik, you might want a little more to drink. So here are a few recipes, with and without alcohol, for both the creative drinker and the less alcoholic, stumped cook/picnic-maker.
