Jordaan Food Tour

 
On the way this morning to the Eating Amsterdam food tour of Jordaan, we walked by the narrow house (maybe the narrowest house in Amsterdam?) just to compare width of the house to a human.  It’s narrower than Claudia’s wingspan.  

Our food tour was fantastic.  We had apple pie, pickled herring and fried kibbling (cod), cheeses, split pea soup with beer, chicken satay, gin and bitter balls (a fried bar snack) while we learned many more fun facts about the Netherlands and Amsterdam.  It seems that many words (and the entire city formerly known as New Amsterdam, which we now call New York) owe much to the Netherlands.  The happy cows of the Netherlands were made happy not by grassy fields,, but by being given udder sovereignty.  They are milked by robots when they choose to be milked.  At our last stop, tasting Hoppe jiniver (Gin), we learned that the way sailors determined whether the barrels of gin they bought were really gin was to light a fuse — big explosion meant real gin.  

 








 It was another cold and windy day but the tour (and the soup and the gin) kept us warm.  That’s your midday update!

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