On my way to meeting Vincent Kartheiser, I feel underdressed. As Pete Campbell on AMC’s Mad Men, Kartheiser exudes some of the slippery polish of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, all sharp angles and murderous, WASP-y bite.
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Sometimes, strip malls contain pockets of culinary relief, like Bistro Tupaz in south San Jose.
There are cheese fries, and then there’s poutine—the French-Canadian gift to the world of hangovers. This simple dish consists of French fries layered with squeaky cheese curds and beef gravy. It seems predestined that Americans would revere this hypersaturated Montreal staple, yet the dish is virtually unknown in most of this country. And where it is popular, poutine bears a few “cosmopolitan” characteristics.
