Destination: Netherlands

favorite desserts of 2018…

– I have little to add to the thoughts that I previously recorded about pastryland in 2016, and which I reiterated in 2017. The majority of desserts I encounter in restaurants continues to be overwrought.  Sadly, excessive plating remains a popular style.  And pastry chefs haven’t lost their interest in unorthodox (sometimes bizarre) ingredients. In 2018, […]

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favorite desserts of 2018…

– I have little to add to the thoughts that I previously recorded about pastryland in 2016, and which I reiterated in 2017. The majority of desserts I encounter in restaurants continues to be overwrought.  Sadly, excessive plating remains a popular style.  And pastry chefs haven’t lost their interest in unorthodox (sometimes bizarre) ingredients. In 2018, […]

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travel: personal history… (amsterdam; 2018)

– Why hadn’t I spent more time appreciating this place? A mild sense of regret trickled through me as I stepped out of the train station and into Leiden, a beautifully preserved Dutch town cut with canals and dotted with windmills.  Clean and uncluttered, Leiden is the Dutch postcard that Amsterdam is not. I am […]

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travel: personal history… (amsterdam; 2018)

– Why hadn’t I spent more time appreciating this place? A mild sense of regret trickled through me as I stepped out of the train station and into Leiden, a beautifully preserved Dutch town cut with canals and dotted with windmills.  Clean and uncluttered, Leiden is the Dutch postcard that Amsterdam is not. I am […]

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travel: what i did for food…

– I was 27, and I was crazy. Two years of imprisonment in the ivy halls of law school begged for an adventure. So off to the Netherlands I went for a change of scene, under the pretense of studying law in the Dutchmen’s ivy halls. Don’t tell anyone, but I was really there to […]

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travel: what i did for food…

– I was 27, and I was crazy. Two years of imprisonment in the ivy halls of law school begged for an adventure. So off to the Netherlands I went for a change of scene, under the pretense of studying law in the Dutchmen’s ivy halls. Don’t tell anyone, but I was really there to […]

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review: my little jewel….

Oud Sluis (one visit, November 2005) *Pictures on Flickr.com* Oud Sluis is just about as hard to get to as it is good, no – excellent. Located just a few kilometers from the Belgian border, the tiny town of Sluis is a touristy outpost in the southern coastal “nether lands” of the Dutch province of […]

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review: my little jewel….

Oud Sluis (one visit, November 2005) *Pictures on Flickr.com* Oud Sluis is just about as hard to get to as it is good, no – excellent. Located just a few kilometers from the Belgian border, the tiny town of Sluis is a touristy outpost in the southern coastal “nether lands” of the Dutch province of […]

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review: eating in libraries

De Librije (one visit, November 2005) “You must go to De Librije,” said almost every server and wait staff member that I have had the pleasure (or not) of meeting in the various Dutch restaurants I’ve visited. For those not in the industry (ie. the “common folk”), the mere mention of “De Librije” (if pronounced […]

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review: eating in libraries

De Librije (one visit, November 2005) “You must go to De Librije,” said almost every server and wait staff member that I have had the pleasure (or not) of meeting in the various Dutch restaurants I’ve visited. For those not in the industry (ie. the “common folk”), the mere mention of “De Librije” (if pronounced […]

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