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Column: making polenta
Tonight we eat polenta with game! It is February, there is still some snow here and there, and it can still be quite cold at night. Once a year we all come together – about 36 people – to eat polenta. This tradition was started by our previous pastor. Making Polenta […] More
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Wild Geraas 2.0: Sinterklaas in Italy and the rest of the world
Did you know that Sinterklaas is also celebrated in Northern Italy? With Zwarte Pieten (although they have a different name there)? The celebration of December 5 is therefore by no means exclusively a Dutch celebration. And certainly not invented by the schoolmaster Jan Schenkman. He has only interpreted it as we celebrate the feast today. […] More
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in Columns, Culture, Italian food, regions, VenetoColumn: traditions, from vintages to street games
September was for me a month full of activities that at first sight have nothing to do with each other, but are nevertheless intertwined. For example, I enjoyed an exhibition of classic cars, I helped a winegrower with the wine harvest and I watched ancient street games during the Tocatì Festival in Verona. […] More
