An empty city

Three out of the four shops are closed. One of them usually sells food When last week I left my apartment, I felt a kind of a positive ...

Doubts and uncertainties (part II)

Who can resist this beautiful, colorful tajine filled with only vegetables, potatoes, chick peas and dried fruits The article reminde...

Doubts and uncertainties (part I)

Without any hard feelings I ate this 150grams of beef for lunch...... Last weekend was a weekend full of contradictions. Not only beca...

Fear of water

Almost ready to take off and serve water to the Milanese Yep. It is a new year. A year full of new opportunities. A new start in which ...

Hunting the Streets

Signs telling us hunting is allowed You must have noticed it’s autumn. While most people decide to slowly crawl back in their houses (...

Cultivate diversity

The cities inhabitants are as diverse as the tourists on La Piazza di Spagna As you might have notices after almost two years of posts...

Almost there

A typical farm yard in one of the many cascine around Milan Milan has around 60 farms within the borders of the municipality. Many of t...

Cascine aperte

A typical Milanese cascina I do not know a European city which has so many farms within its municipality borders than Milano. After lo...

Powered by milk

Italy imports most of its fresh milk ‘  What if each day you have to bring some money to your job to be able to work. Would you do tha...

Mercati

A market is like a candy shop. I cannot resist the colorful and fresh produce In contrast to many northern European countries, it is m...

How do you like it

Restaurants are plenty in Milano and choices are overwhelming. Of course there are the Italians offering food from all the different r...

Bored by beauty

How to prepare a  decent pasta in such a small kitchen Holiday time! I will take a break next week. Not just to celebrate holiday. I ...

Place making

A run down area is now the centre of a large event What is the most used way to convince a kid to behave the way it should? Yes, to p...

Hot or not

Villa Augustus in the Dutch town Dordrecht is immensely popular by all kind of people I already announced that this weeks’ post will...

Dirty hands

Some months ago I already told about my do-it-yourself-food-growing project . The project is running well and my boyfriend and I hav...

The farmer next door

Food used to enter the city on its own feet. Farmers took their livestock from the countryside to central markets and sold them dead o...

Thirsty? No need to!

A water-tap-point in the North of Italy providing you with (cold) sparkling or still water. Bring your own bottles! It’s hot. Summer h...

Do you want mine?

Exchange has been the subject of one of my earlier posts already. About a year ago I made a series about differences in Dutch and I...

Fastfood at your doorstep

One of the main characteristics of fast-food is that it is delivered soon after you placed your order. This minimizes the time you...

If I was the pig on the picture I wouldn’t complain at all; a relaxed place to spend my days, plenty of food and attention of happy ...