Butter tarts a Canadian staple with some controversy

There was a time, before the rise of influencer culture made photographing one’s meal de rigueur rather than (what some would call) a crass act of narcissism, that food was not fetishized. Article content

The TikTokers and culinary writers have changed all that, and now no weekend travel supplement is complete without an appeal to foodies — destinations have become defined as much by what we eat as what we see.

Canada’s been a little late, and never quite sure of its place, in the kitchen party.

Pinning down a national dish is notoriously difficult, yet a case can be made for the butter tart as the national dessert.

As gooey and sticky as its name suggests, the sugary confection has been described by the Canadian Encyclopedia as “quintessentially Canadian” and a “real totem for Canadi