Altijd al eens willen modderworstelen, of toch liever een boeren barbecue?

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Foreign cuisines and authentic Dutch experiences

Going to a regular foreign cuisine restaurant in the Netherlands can be called an authentic Dutch experience since these restaurants often represent a Dutch interpretation of a foreign cuisine. That at least, is my conclusion from the fieldwork the students did among the many foreign cuisine restaurants in Wageningen. Authenticity can be created in various [...]

Rural women in Europe: invest in the vitality of rural areas to improve their position

The report ‘Personal and social development of women in rural areas of Europe’, prepared for the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, provides an overview of the social situation of women in the rural areas of Europe. It looks into rural women’s work, political participation and their experience of the quality of life [...]

Stageopdracht bij het Nationaal Archief

Het Nationaal Archief is op zoek naar een student voor deelname aan onderzoek naar maatschappelijke trendanalyse in de periode 1976 - 2005. Het belangrijkste onderdeel van de stage bestaat uit het beschrijven van trends en hotspots. Als stagiair word je toegevoegd aan een domeinteam. Je voornaamste taak is om op basis van literatuuronderzoek trends en hotspots te [...]

Insect food acceptance; a Wageningen bias?

Last week, students of the Food Culture Course conducted fieldwork on how people relate to the eating of insects or insect protein. To our surprise, many more respondents were open to the idea of eating insects or food with insect protein than expected. As I wrote earlier, insects are generally not seen as part of [...]

Eat your landscape Part III; neighborhood forest garden

Food connects us to our landscape (see earlier examples I and II). More than a year ago, a group of people from the Pomona neighborhood, born from the Transition Town Vallei animation evenings, started making plans to improve part of the 1 hectare old orchard which became a wild and inaccessible bush overgrown by brambles. A year of planning, [...]

Eating insects; a taboo?

In first week of the Food Culture course, we look deeper into what a food taboo is. There are many theories on the reasons for taboos and how taboos come into existence. But a sampling of 78 studies from cultures all over the world found that the big majority of food taboos is related to [...]

Eat In for more sustainable catering; tonight meeting at Boerengroep

Last week we organised our 4th Eat In at the Leeuwenborch social science building to raise awareness for more sustainable catering. Again, some 30 students and staff members shared their home cooked lunch with each other. Apart from anything else, it is fun to meet others and to eat a great variety of foods. For the first [...]