A few months ago we saw a program about French pastry chefs that left us with tears in our eyes (imagine working for 4 years on your masterpiece and then dropping it out of your hands at the ‘moment suprême’!) After this film , we had our hearts set on finding our own M.O.F. de [...]

I have added new addresses to my ‘A Taste of Holland’ file. In this file I have collected the best culinary shops in our mayor cities. This is a list with the best bakeries, cake shops, tea and coffee sellers, cheese shops, fish mongers, chocolate makers, delicatessen and kitchenware stores Holland has to offer. So [...]

Matcha is the new magic green. Matcha is a type of powdered green tea grown in the shade and traditionally used in the Japanese tea ceremony. Look around and you will encounter it everywhere. Not only as the tea that it actually is, though in grinded form, but also added to such items as cake [...]

This is a our own version of a recipe Eds grandmother got when she got her first gas oven in the 1950′s. The recipe was published in a booklet from the gas company. The cookies are very crisp with an intense buttery caramel taste. Perfect as a little treat with a cup of hot cocoa [...]

‘Chocolate is something you eat for pleasure, until you discover the appalling things that happen on cocoa plantations. In the production of cocoa beans even children are being exploited. Slavery still exists. Dutch journalist and documentarian Tony van de Keuken met with former child slaves from Burkina Faso who worked without wages and under atrocious [...]