Category: Dutch Food and Drink

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…

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…

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…