‘Spruitjessoep’ , dutch Brussels sprout soup, in the Daily Cookbook (Dagkookboek by Marianne Stuit) I bought new — two copies for both me and my friend — in 1971-2. I was living in Oegstgeest, Holland, near Leiden, as a student Biology (Biochemistry) at the Leiden University. I vividly remember, sliding across the floor (with a sprained ankle) between my tiny kitchen and student room – in the attic of my landlady’s house – with a large enamel pot of Brussels sprout soup.
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Dutch Split Pea Soup, called Erwtensoep or simply ‘Snert’ by the Dutch, a traditional and comforting meal to warm you up when it gets colder in Holland. Made with split peas, plenty of vegetables, and pork.
Music : A Sophisticated Place by John Van Houdt | Artlist
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Silent film — Towards the end of World War I – in the summer 1918 , after the Allies defeated the Germans in the Second Battle of the Marne – large groups of Belgians and French refugees flee in front of the retreating enemy force to the neutral Netherlands.
The Dutch army and Red Cross prepared to receive a possible 100,000 evacuees in the border towns in the south of the Netherlands.
After wandering weeks in the north of France , and next crossing Belgium on foot, the first group of French refugees arrived at the Dutch border October 20, completely exhausted.
At the gate in the electric wire fence at the border to the Netherlands – the so-called ‘Death Wire’ (dutch : Dodendraad ) Dutch soldiers took them over from German escorts.
Some refugees had travelled by tram part of the route crossing Belgium to the belgian border town Molenbeersel.
At the dutch border the refugees were welcomed and ladies from relief committees provide the refugees with food and drinks on the road to Stramproy in the Netherlands.
Within days , thousands of French refugees arrive in the village of Stramproy and are transferred to the city of Weert .
On arrival in the city center of Weert the dutch army registered people and handed out soup and bread.
The weak, the sick, and maternity women were cared for by the Red Cross and taken to an aid post for further care.
The refugees were sheltered the night in buildings like convents and schools in Weert, before being housed elsewhere in the country the following days.
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Source (video footage) : Belgische vluchtelingen 1e Wereldoorlog. Open Images | Beeld & Geluid (Sound &Vision).
Weert en het einde van W.O.-I. | Jan Henkens | Stichting Historisch Onderzoek Weert | URL http://www.showeert.nl
Novel food – duckweed – ‘burger duckweed’ our future food? Here floating in the canals around Alphen in the Green Heart of Holland. Lemna (duckweed) is the smallest flowering plant on earth. It multiplies quickly and is rich in protein at dry weight. All of which of course is exactly what the world needs. “Lemna has so much promise as a solution within the foreseeable future,” says scientist Ingrid van der Meer at the Wageningen University, Holland).
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① memo 20190619 ~ Live Menu Card ~ Anna showing the à la carte menu in the kitchen – with octopus, chicken lemon, pie, soup, beans, calamari, shrimps, meat and pepper , and more … in the Damouchari taverna on the Pelion coast, June 2009, Greece
