Last weekend, Rotterdam turned a part of its art museum into a food cornucopia. Although mainly for restaurant people, caterers or people with a thick pocket, it was still obvious that good food these days more and more focuses on marketing itself in the same breath as environmentally concerned, socially good, culturally rooted. That's why you could see (and smell and TASTE) fantastic cheeses, produce from the Ark of Taste of Slow Food NL, endless variations of raspberries or the prettiest cupcakes of Lisette Kreischer, while passing by the longest moestuin (uhm: allotment garden), prepared by Rotterdam school children and displayed proudly:
I was enjoying the sun outside behind the stand of the Youth Food Movement, or in front in a nun dress, trying to convince people to confess their foodsins on camera. Maarten made people amazed and happy with 1-day young apple juice, while Sam and Jiri filled hungry stomachs with self-made sausages from very happy pigs.
In between happened all the small and not so small talks to people about, guess what, food, and what and why the YFM does around it. Towards the end of the day an old lady walked by and was probably the happiest person on earth discovering that kunsthal kookt happened that weekend, telling she had forgotten until half an hour ago and quickly passed by before it closed for that day. The apple juice reminded her of her twenties when she fled post-war Germany and worked for a Dutch apple farmer and was still able to wear high-heels she informed everyone, then laughed and passed on into the kunsthal.
Beautiful berries from the delivery service Bio aan huis
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