In Quebec’s Casse-Croûtes, Fast Food for a Short but Sweet Summer

The daytime line outside La Mollière.

"When newcomers to Canada, the Italian couple had discovered along Quebec’s country roads the joys of the casse-croûtes, the food shacks that lie dormant in the frozen landscape during winter and then burst to life during the all-too-short warm months. And so on a recent afternoon, the couple, Marta Grasso and Andrea La Monaca, sat side by side at a picnic table at one of these shacks, La Mollière, a lobster roll before him and a shrimp roll for her. A large blue sky spread out behind the casse-croûte, built on a promontory over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. ... La Mollière stirs back to life in May. The owners spend the next five months in a trailer behind the casse-croûte, no days off. ..."


A "guédille," or lobster roll, from La Mollière.

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