I see you

Are you home? Do your neighbors and random passersby know if you are home?

If you lived in the Netherlands, they would.

Food tidbits

The Grote Markt, abandoned, on a Sunday afternoon. Vendors sell fresh fruits, vegetables, cheeses, meat, fish, fresh flowers, garden supplies, etc. etc., on Tuesday and Saturday. It looks huge, desolate, and weird on most Sundays.

If you know me, you know I love food. Cooking it, eating it, reading about it, writing about it, listening to radio and watching TV about it…a conservative estimate of the percent of waking hours I spend in a day on food would hover near 50%. Food, being essential to life and, more importantly, my entertainment, is the first thing I’m trying to figure out here. I just did a big shop at the grocery store, so it seems appropriate to share some Nederland food fun.

1) Today, at the Jumbo supermarket, I bought only two things without knowing what they are. This, my friends, is progress: last Tuesday, feeling adventurous, I bought four unknown fish (labeled Mul) at the Grote Markt. They were Grote Gross.