The importance of……enjoying

Always enjoy your meals, whether it is a luxurious four course meal or a simple plate full of vegetables Now 2012 will arrive within a co...

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...

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...

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...

Bees and the boring countryside

See the diversity in a city! The countryside is often found boring by people living in vibrating cities. The choices between shops is ve...

Making the invisible visible

Ssomeone who decided to cater for his own food When leaving the city and coming closer to the countryside one can see all kinds of foods...

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 ‘...

Stop and Go

How and where do you eat breakfast, lunch or diner? When autumn is coming days are getting shorter and it becomes more difficult to wake ...

Buy and built

Building makes hungry. But there is more resemblance between the build and food profession. This article is also published on IL CAMBIAME...

Harvest

Many villages and regions celebrate in September and October. Munich celebrates the harvest of hop and grain in their yearly Octoberfest , ...

Wine, wein, vin, vino

The landscape changes constantly when travelling from Holland to a south European holiday destination. This year I travelled to Italy. From...

It takes two to tango

This tekst is also available on IL CAMBIAMENTO A farmer needs rain and sunshine for his food to grow. He loves his job and wants to deliver...

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...

Fast food meets slow eaters - An essay III

Enjoying (unhealthy) food at a rock festival while getting in contact with others In cities food can be obtained at wide range of locati...

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...

Green pearls

 More pictures of the Nutstuin (including top views) can be seen on Flickr  Inner cities are usually densely built with shops, offices...