Joyeux anniversaire to the Washington Jewish Film Festival (WJFF)! This year, the WJFF celebrates its 25th year with 11 days of film programming, and cultural events exploring the diversity of the Jewish experience across the globe. Between February 19 and March 1, 2015, D.C. audiences will be treated to some 100 movie screenings and related events across the DMV, including many premieres and an exciting roster of filmmaker and cast appearances. To honour the festival's past, former festival directors have also selected a special line up of retrospective film screenings that includes the heartbreaking classic Louis Malle film Au Revoir les Enfants (on Feb 21 at the Goethe Institut and Feb 24 ...
Poutine
Go Habs Go: Poutine Pizza for Game 7
I don't know who's been doing poutine's PR lately, but Quebec's classic dish has been ALL over the news. There was this poutine porn in Huffington Post last month. A poutine burger was NPR's featured Sandwich Monday recently. And then there was all the hoopla that accompanied the opening of Chicago's Big Cheese Poutinerie, a restaurant dedicated entirely to, you guessed it, poutine! Most recently, poutine popped up in this great Wall Street Journal article. The (Canadian) author, Adam Leith Gollner, laments the rise of enhanced poutine, topped with foie gras for example, arguing that poutine should remain, at its core, the greasy kind of dish that's consumed when cold or inebriated. Or both ...
Celebrating Poutine Week… in Washington, D.C.
I think I may have mentioned it a few times on this blog, I used to live in Montreal, Quebec. For 4 years. You'd think this would mean I'd be able to weather this cold snowy winter like a champ, right? Well, not quite. But it means I have learned to appreciate Quebec delicacies like shish taouk and poutine (and Molson beer... let's be honest). Montreal has changed a lot since I lived there. It's still cold. But it now has macaron shops and poutine week. POUTINE WEEK!!! Are you kidding me!?!? It's basically like our Restaurant Week except between February 1st and February 7th, there are 30 restaurants that offer special poutines for $10. Do you have any idea how all over that I would have ...