Indigenous flavors will be present on the plate of Pope Francis when he comes to Quebec.
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“We are happy to participate and it makes us happy,” commented the general manager of the Wendake Tourist Office, Alain Authier. It was at the request of the archdiocese and Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix that the restaurant La Traite, of the Hôtel-Musée Premières Nations, in Wendake, was invited to participate in the preparation of the meal which will bring together Aboriginal leaders and bishops on Thursday.
Chef Marc de Passorio collaborated with the chef of Château Frontenac, Frédéric Cyr, to concoct the menu. The latter will feature dishes with an Aboriginal flavor, said Mr. Authier.
Originally, he revealed, the pope was to travel to Wendake to meet with members of the nation there. But his health problems and the constraints of this trip prevented him. He will therefore dine at the archdiocese. The Chief of the Huron-Wendat Nation, Rémy Vincent, is also invited.
In addition, a Wendat artist, Manon Sioui, made a chasuble for the pope, at the request of the Vatican. The garment is “adorned with sober embroidery,” the Nation said in a press release.
The Huron-Wendat Nation estimates that about fifteen of its members attended Aboriginal residential schools and that others were placed in foster families or adoptive homes in the wake of the roundup that was perpetrated in the 1960s.