It's been a while since my last post. I think that my daily routine is abut too boring to write blog posts about, I therefore will start off with a blog post about some of the Dutch things I've encountered in Michigan.
To start off, I've only briefly spoken to another Dutch person a few weeks ago, there seems to be a lack of Dutch and Flemish students inn Ann Arbor. The French and Germans seem to be well represented however.
The first thing is the cheese plane or kaasschaaf. I had often heard that this was a Dutch invention and hard to get outside the Netherlands. Its availability at the local Kroger seems to counter that.
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| Rookworst |
No Dutch winter meal is supposed to be complete without a rookworst. It seems that these smoked sausages are quite prevelant in michigan as well.
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| Let us not forget speculaas (windmill cookies) |
I have never before heard of chocovine. I think it's one of those Dutch things that is exclusively exported (like many of the Dutch cheeses which I did not photograph).
There was also so e Dutch chocolate to be found.
One of the main differences between the products is that they're not just labeled in SI (metric), but also in medieval USC units which includes units such as oz, fl oz, lb, qt, gal, gulp, chug etc.
Windmill cookies!!
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