Festivities

Last month we could already enjoy the first days like spring. Warm rays of sun heated our body and made us come out of or dark and moldy ho...

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...

Great places

Shops, a park and more shops and cafes. The perfect ingredients for a great area. More and more people start to meet each other in popul...

Find a new balance

 To survive we should stay in balance (photo by RBisschops ) Someday soon the earth will welcome her 7 milliard inhabitant. Usually som...

Behind the scenes

Former slaugther house area which has been transformed in a residential area in 1998 This article is also available on IL CAMBIAMENTO ‘...

Self sufficiency

These days people are able to live and survive in a diversity of environments spread out from a deserted area somewhere in the mountains to...

Food market(ing) - An essay IV

The book Eat this has ten suggestions for food hotspots which offer a good opportunity to create public domain. Most of them still give ...

Fun

The model as a result of the essay (roof is kept open to be able to look into the interior) I just realized it is such fun to write th...

Too much is still not good - An essay II

This is the second part of the essay ‘Food as energizer for the public domain’. Last week I dealt with the changes we’ve gone through du...

Food as a necessity - An essay I

This week part one out of four of the essay ‘Food as energizer for the public domain’. The first two issues will mainly give an overview...

Meltdown

A few weeks ago I wrote about the temptations one gets’ when walking in a city. Restaurants try to convince passers-by to enter their resta...

Cash Cow

This tekst is also available on IL CAMBIAMENTO Many languages have sayings in which food plays a major role. The Dutch use the saying Als...

The origin of food

 Paintings on the work of (former) inhabitants of a small frazione near Barolo. More wallpaintings can be seen on Flickr One of ...

Hide and seek

The Dutch landscape is often related to flowers, windmills and typical black/white cows in green polders. But is this still true? Last we...

National proud!

No matter what you eat, dinner should be joined togheter Until WW II the Dutch main meal was made from potatoes, vegetables and ocassion...

After work hang-out

A perfect place for an afternoon drink   Blogpost four out of five deals with our afternoon energy fill-up and the after work drinks. A...

Pranzo

Halfway the week we are halfway describing a day of differences between eating Italians and Dutch. After today two more blogposts will foll...

Coffeelovers

An Italian coffeebar where they sometimes enable you to buy a 12-coffees card Coffeelovers is the second blogpost in a series of five on ...

Food exchange

The pride of Piemonte now conquering the world: Eataly Deze week een aantal korte blogposts in het Engels waarin de verschillen tussen de...