Category: Dutch Culture
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The Dutch Words That Reveal How the Netherlands Really Lives
These five Dutch words have no English translation — and each one reveals something true about how the Dutch think, feel, and live — plus get weekly Netherlands stories free in our newsletter.
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The Quiet Art of Dutch Cheese — And Why You Should Skip the Tourist Shops
Image: Wolf-photography / Shutterstock Dutch cheese has a problem, and the problem is the tourist shops. Walk down any street in central Amsterdam and you’ll see them — bright, cheerful, windows stacked with wheels of yellow Gouda and red-waxed Edam, labelled with cute Dutch phrases and marketed aggressively at visitors. Most of what they sell…
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What Is a Bitterbal? A Field Guide to the Dutch Bar Snack You Need to Try
Image: Shutterstock Walk into any Dutch brown café on a weekday evening and you’ll see, on half the tables, a little dish of small brown spheres with a pot of mustard beside them. Those are bitterballen, and if you leave the Netherlands without trying them you haven’t really been. What they actually are A bitterbal…
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Why the Dutch Take Their Coffee (and Their Stroopwafels) So Seriously
Image: Shutterstock The Netherlands is not Italy, where coffee is a ritual. It is not France, where coffee is an excuse to sit down. It is, oddly, somewhere in between — and it’s almost always served with a small, unassuming, extraordinary biscuit called a stroopwafel. The coffee The Dutch drink more coffee per person than…