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 ...
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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 ...
