Marion’s Meat Market, Little Canada neighborhood, Lowell, Mass., c. 1926
WBUR-FM radio in Boston tracked down what for now stands as the most accurate story about the origin of the French Canadian-American (and Quebec French Canadian) homestyle comfort food with the unusual name: Chinese Pie. Listen to the podcast by Amanda Beland, who grew up in a French Canadian family in Manchester. N.H. My poem “Chinese Pie” makes a cameo appearance. Here’s the link.