Paris on the Prairies
During the annual Festival du Voyageur, Western Canada’s largest winter festival, every year in February, Road Trips Foodies can sample classic French-Canadian cuisine, including pea soup, tourtière (a warm, meat pie) and sugar pie. Or maybe take a walk across the Esplanade Riel footbridge to St. Boniface to sample Croque Monsieur, cuisses de grenouille (frog legs) or Coq au Vin.
Then, take in a play at the oldest French theatre in Canada, Le Cercle Molière, or take a visit to the St. Boniface Museum, built in 1846, that displays the life of the Métis and French-Canadians in the largest existing oak-log structure in North America.
It all takes place from February 17 through 26, 2012 — not in Québec, but in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Paris on the Prairies (who knew?).
This year’s Rendez-vous des chefs is a pea soup competition. It takes place from 1 to 4 p.m. February 27, 2012, in the Maison du Bourgeois in Voyageur Park.
(Photo courtesy of Festival du Voyageur)