From the field to your doorstep

‘They’ want to bring farmers closer to their clients. The supply needs to get closer to the demands. Interesting. I’ve already talked ...

How to grow food in the city

Don’t expect a solution after reading this title. This post is to inspire you. I did some research, talked to some people and collecte...

Where is the green

This garden shows that you don't need that much space to grow food Ok. This is maybe not the time to complain about a lack of gr...

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...

Mangiare, mangiare, mangiare

Colazione, pranzo, aperativo, cena . Everything in Italy seems to be organized around food. Before you go to work you'll have ...

Stranieri a Milano

I am a stranger in Milano now. And although I don't now many people yet I know I am not alone. For at least half a year I am going t...

Dumped

Dutch farmers will bring their surpluses to local food pantries I mentioned already that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was mea...

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...

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...

Shaken. Not stirred.

‘Shaken. Not stirred’. That’s what James Bond used to say when ordering his Martini. He was given a choice by the barman. Unfortunatel...

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...

Do it yourself

Still pretty but some sun, water and lot's of love will make them strong soon In our food-supply we have made ourselves completel...

Legally addicted

A beautifully growing tobacco plant  hasn't a beautiful effect on our health During the last years the discussion about eating food o...

Royal lunch

A lunch like this would be a dream come true In the West people spend less and less time on their lunch. Even in Mediterranean countries ...

Shame on you

Off course sometimes you eat things you actually shouldn’t. Some chocolate when you are not happy, chips when you are watching a movie with...

Fancy and fat

If you stroll around an average city centre you will find lots of restaurants. I recently found out that there seems to be a clear differen...

A damping cup of coffee

An earlier pos t already started the discussion on the difference between Dutch and Italian coffee habits. These following two weeks I will...

The man with the sausages

The streets of a city host many street vendors a place to sell whatever you can think of; homeless selling their newspapers desperate to ha...