Meat pies are celebrated in this French Canadian family.
"Well, being French Canadian you definitely have to have a taste of the French Tourtière, which everybody celebrated on Christmas. On Christmas Eve, the whole family would get together. And, we would all go to midnight mass together, and then midnight mass finished, you were able to . . . you all gathered at some relatives house, and you had Réveillon, which was the major family party, and there was no Réveillon without Tourtière, which is a French meat pie. And, it was delicious and you didn't celebrate Christmas or New Year's Eve without eating your piece of Tourtière.
Part of the "Stories from Main Street" project--an effort to collect stories about small-town life across the United States. The project was the brainchild of the Smithsonian's "Museum on Main Street" program, an initiative that brings traveling exhibitions about subjects of national importance to small towns across America."
Background music from "A Very Badgerland Christmas" (2011) by Badgerland, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
