Dutch Spring Greens: All the right springredients

  Much like the weather, spring ingredients are greener, lighter and brighter. Dishes are simply made and devoured more quickly.   Spring stretches from March until June in the Netherlands, bringing with it new buds, new rains and new excitement for the balmy months ahead....

Multilingualism in schools: Yes or No?

Multilingualism in schools explores how being multilingualism could be more advantageous compared to monolingual people in various areas. Read more about it in this article.

The artbook as cookbook

While the Rijksmuseum’s galleries and cookbook’s images captivate us with the mystery and eloquence of the Dutch Masters, they also stimulate our culinary appetites. The modest simplicity of Vermeer’s Woman Reading a Letter and the domestic warmth of Jan Steen’s The Feast of Saint Nicholas...

De Stijl Movement, historical Dutch design

While you may not know the name ‘De Stijl’, you might certainly be familiar with the visual language of this artistic movement, especially if you’ve lived in the Netherlands for any amount of time. Read more about it in this article

What Death Teaches About Living Abroad

Grief, distance, and what no relocation package prepares you for. There are many ways to learn about the country you’ve moved to and now live in. You learn it through its food, traffic, humour, the way strangers make — or avoid — eye contact on...