Monkey Monday: Zuiderzeeroute edition 25 June 2007 12:43 am
Posted by Tracy in : cheese, local food, milk, seasonality, sundance, travel , trackbackHello readers! Automatic posting turned out so well last week that I’m giving it another shot with today’s post, which I am actually writing late on Saturday night/early Sunday morning in Volendam, the Netherlands, on the second night of an epic bike trip around the IJsselmeer, a body of water formerly known as the Zuiderzee, for which the bike route around it is named. Biking burns a lot of calories, and Peter and I have been eating all kinds of crazy delicious food, and lots of it, to keep fueled on this adventure, and I have been taking notes whenever possible. However, it is very late, and I must sleep, so just a few quick monkey-style thoughts for you to ponder:
My grandparents are fiercely loyal to Dutch produce to a degree that might seem ridiculous to readers in the United States, but then again, it’s easy for them to know and care about this issue: all the produce I’ve seen sold in supermarkets here has been clearly labeled with its country of origin.
It’s just turning into asparagus and strawberry and red currant season here in the Netherlands — except for the strawberries, all three of those were done in Oregon when we left on this trip. Yay for more red currants!
Farmstead cheese (made on a farm with milk from animals raised there) was a big deal for me in the Sundance cheese department, but there’s something far more awesome for bike trips here in the Netherlands: farmstead ice cream. Awww, yeah.
On a bike trip, always order the large fries. Maybe two.
As I just wrote in my big post about this second day of our trip, the Dutch farmlandscape makes me want a big grilled cheese sandwich fried in butter, with maybe a glass of milk to wash it all down — and I never drink milk, so these urges kind of freak me out even as they make me all hungry.
Um, pretty please read the post I linked to up there? And remind me to write about this trip, because it has been both delicious and thought-provoking, in case that last little blurb didn’t make it clear (and it’s late enough at night that I have no real concept of clarity).
Ook. I believe that even monkeys will agree that banana-flavored ice cream is an abomination. (Again, there’s more context for that last in my big Ronde IJsselmeer: Day 2 post on Van Boothe Tandem Adventures.)
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Came across a book by Peter Singer : “The way we eat, why our food choices matter”. The purpose if this message is so I would not forget to tell you.
Hi Mom! I’ve read that particular Peter Singer and Jim Mason book and it is excellent and I have many notes about it taken right into a TracyFood entry draft around here somewhere…. thought-provoking stuff. Oh, and Happy Birthday one more time.