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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Hockey Night in Canada Washington
While I like to think of myself as a proud cocorico-ing French woman, my nationality is apparently not as obvious to everyone as I would like to think it is. Maybe it's because I speak fluent French and English. Love soccer and hockey, wine and Molson Export. Perhaps the confusion come from the fact that did I spend 4 years living in Montreal. Or it might be due to pictures like this floating on the internets: Among other things, my time spent in Montreal has introduced me to hockey. They say a woman never forgets her first love and that's definitely true for me and my first hockey love. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Caps but I'll always feel a little something for the ...
