Healthy city-life

Food in the Streets once started with a research questioning the influence of food in the public domain. In the (five) years afte...

Heavy stuff

Brutto ma buono / Ugly but delicious It is winter so it should be cold outside. Unfortunately the weather doesn’t always bother the se...

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 ...

The diversity of urban farmers

Guerilla gardening in Bologna Finally I’ve made it. A short break and a full agenda didn’t allow me to give you the so wanted examples o...

The Dutch examples

Creativity is needed when space is scarce Oke. Let’s start this research on green in the city in The Netherlands. The country I’ve l...

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...

Dumped

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

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...

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...

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 ...

Get together

A romantic candle-light dinner made from leftovers (foto by RB ) Did you ever thought you could find the love of your life with the hel...

Golden ages and dark nights

A new year has come. A year in which we start with fresh ideas and good intentions. Now it has become January it won’t be long before days ...

One big fridge

How do you do your weekly food shopping? You do buy each day what you feel like? Or do you make a list and bring some big bags to fill up y...

Track and Trace

 A streetname which dates back to its former function; a market square were calfs where sold.  Jeans brand Kuyichi used to have a t...

The Beauty and the Beast

Not very beautiful but delicious foods Tastes differ. It is a fact and it is no problem. This is how different brands can survive. It giv...

Inside out

Things change constantly. One year you have to wear skinny jeans while the next year you cannot go out without a loose fit model. While tim...

The importance of....tourism

Whether you prepare it yourself or order it at a restaurant. You are fine as long as the ingredients are local. Today this blog exists e...

Farming the city

Should the farmer start a food factory? Loads of articles, documentaries and books are written about people in cities which start to gro...

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...