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Dutch food is traditionally characterized by the high consumption of vegetables when compared to the consumption of meat.
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Originally much of the west shore of Upper New York Bay consisted of large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster banks, a major source of food for the Lenape population who lived in the area prior to the arrival of Dutch settlers.
They were either in the womb, or were recently born, during the great Dutch famine of 1944 – when German troops monopolized food and 18, 000 people died of starvation.
In Suriname, a former Dutch colony, Dutch-style pea soup is eaten as a street food.
The Dutch were unable to feed their dense urban population without a regular supply of Baltic wheat and rye ; prices of these commodities soared and the poor were soon unable to buy food.
* Increasing the Dutch food supply with new agricultural land
Factors for the great population growth include the impact of Dutch colonial rule including the imposed end to civil war in Java, the increase in the area under rice cultivation, and the introduction of food plants such as casava and maize which could sustain populations that could not afford rice.
Today, Wageningen is also the central city in Food Valley, the Dutch food & nutrition cluster concentrated around WUR and comprising many institutes, companies and state-of-the-art facilities in the food & nutrition field.
Trade with these native peoples for food and furs was conducted by the Dutch during the period of colonization of New Netherlands.
Lyons also hosts an annual Fiddle Festival held every September where there is traditional PA Dutch food, crafts, as well as dancing and fiddling contests.
Additionally, the Dutch navy blockaded Republican areas from supplies of vital food, medicine, and weapons.
A German blockade cut off food and fuel shipments from farm areas to punish the reluctance of the Dutch to aid the Nazi war effort.
After the national railways complied with the exiled Dutch government's appeal for a railway strike starting September 1944 to further the Allied liberation efforts, the German administration retaliated by placing an embargo on all food transports to the western Netherlands.
Shortly after these shipments, the German occupiers allowed coordinated air drops of food by the Royal Air Force over German-occupied Dutch territory in Operation Manna.
* CBC Archives-CBC Radio ( April 30, 1945 ) reporting on the agreement to provide food to the Dutch.
Scrapple and pon haus are commonly considered an ethnic food of the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Mennonites and Amish.
In addition to these types of still life, Dutch artists identified and separately developed " kitchen and market " paintings, breakfast and food table still life, vanitas paintings, and allegorical collection paintings.
One Friday and Saturday weekend includes Dutch Days with Dutch music, dance, and food.
The program diminished during the last years of the Dutch era ( 1940s ) but was revived following Indonesian independence, in an attempt to alleviate the food shortages and weak economic performance during Sukarno's presidency in the two decades following World War II.
Dutch butter and cheese prices collapsed as a result of this blockade ( and rose steeply in the affected import areas ), as did wine and herring prices ( the Dutch monopolized the French wine trade at the time ), but the steep price rises in the Spanish Netherlands, sometimes accompanied by food shortages, led to an eventual relaxation of this embargo.
The Indonesian rijsttafel (), a Dutch word that literally translates to " rice table ", is an elaborate meal adapted by the Dutch following the presentation of food from the Padang region of West Sumatra.
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* 1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius ( 1560 – 1609 ) and his historic supporters known as the Remonstrants and is known as a soteriological sect of Protestant Christianity.
The airport that serves Aachen, Maastricht Aachen Airport, is located about 40 km away in Dutch territory, close to the town of Beek.
* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
The word acre is derived from Old English æcer originally meaning " open field ", cognate to west coast Norwegian ækre and Swedish åker, German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager, and Greek αγρός ( agros ).
Plancius called the constellation " Paradysvogel Apis Indica "; the first word is Dutch for ' bird of paradise ', but the others are Latin for " Indian Bee "; " apis " ( Latin for " bee ") is presumably an error for " avis " or " bird ".
It is also similar to the use of quotation marks in many other languages ( including Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Dutch and German ).
Why they went with Aster, and not the more well known Tulip is unknown, perhaps they thought it would be to presumptuous, or perhaps the fact that " Aster " is also a Dutch girls name has something to do with it.
It originates from 17th century Dutch dialects spoken by the mainly-Dutch settlers of what is now South Africa, where it began to develop independently.
Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).
Although Afrikaans adopted words from languages such as Malay, Portuguese, the Bantu languages, and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95 percent of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin.
The club is historically one of the three clubs that dominate the Dutch national football league ( Eredivisie ), the others being PSV and Feyenoord.
The club is also particularly famous for its renowned youth program that has produced many Dutch talents over the years – Johan Cruijff, Edwin van der Sar, Dennis Bergkamp, national team top scorer Patrick Kluivert, and former national team coach Marco van Basten.
Dutch First Division club Telstar is an official satellite club of AZ.
* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
Cuyp ( 1594 – 1651 / 52 ), he is especially known for his large views of the Dutch countryside in early morning or late afternoon light.
His period of activity as a painter is traditionally limited to the two decades between 1639 and 1660, fitting directly within the generally accepted limits of the Dutch Golden Age ’ s most significant period, 1640-1665.
Dutch hip hop or Nederhop is hip hop music created by musicians in the Netherlands and Flanders.
But there is disagreement about who started rapping in Dutch between Blonnie B, Alex and the CityCrew, Dynamic Rockers, Def Rhymes and Osdorp Posse.
( The Edison Awards is an award by the Dutch Music Industry.
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Fungi and other organisms traditionally recognized as fungi, such as oomycetes and myxomycetes ( slime molds ), often are economically and socially important as some cause diseases of animals ( such as histoplasmosis ) as well as plants ( such as Dutch elm disease and Rice blast ).
* Cricket is traditionally one of the most popular sports in The Hague, with a number of strong teams from the Dutch league located there.
The soup, which is traditionally eaten during the winter, is emblematic of Dutch cuisine.
The VVD is a party founded on liberal philosophy, traditionally being the most ardent supporter of ' free markets ' of all Dutch political parties, promoting political, economic liberalism, classical liberalism, cultural liberalism, but also ( in contrast to this ) committed to the idea of the welfare state.
This war also proceeded disastrously for the Stadtholder's forces, and in the severe winter of 1794 / 95 a French army under general Charles Pichegru, with a Dutch contingent under general Herman Willem Daendels, crossed the great frozen rivers that traditionally protected the Netherlands from invasion.
the Bishopric of Liège, the Romance Flanders ( i. e. Cambrai, Lille, Tournai ), the French-speaking part of Brabant around Nivelles and, Namur, where Walloon is traditionally spoken ), the region is Germanic with Dutch and Luxembourgish being the dominant languages, although French has historically played an important role as it still does in Luxembourg.
When it comes to alcoholic beverages wine has long been absent in Dutch cuisine ( but this is changing during the last decades ); traditionally there are many brands of beer and strong alcoholic spirits such as jenever and brandewijn.
Münster was in an even worse condition ; in August it had to abandon the siege of Groningen ; before 1672 had ended Coevorden was retaken and the province of Drenthe liberated, leaving the Allies in possession of only three of the in fact ten ( despite the number traditionally given of seven ) Dutch provincial areas.
Edam (, ) is a Dutch cheese traditionally sold in spheres with a pale yellow interior and a coat of red paraffin wax.
Religious life has also traditionally been very important to Urk's inhabitants, with active, conservative congregations of the Dutch Reformed denominations playing key roles in the life of the community.
Bally has traditionally been a home of many Pennsylvania Dutch settlers and their descendants.
The word, of Old French or Middle Dutch origin, is now most commonly ( identical with boy, also as in buoyancy ) in UK English, although some orthoepists have traditionally prescribed the pronunciation.
It has traditionally been the language of the Pennsylvania Dutch, descendants of late 17th and early 18th century immigrants to the US states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina from southern Germany, eastern France and Switzerland.
Private schools rely on their own funds, but they are highly uncommon in the Netherlands, to the extent that even the Dutch monarchs have traditionally attended special or public schools.
In practice, there is little difference between special schools and public schools, except in traditionally religious areas of the Dutch Bible Belt.
Closely associated with the American Old West, the Dutch oven of tradition is a heavy cast iron pot, traditionally made with three short legs and a concave cover for holding hot coals on top.
Dutch ovens were traditionally specially designed for camping, and such pots ( often with legs and a handle, both for suspending the pot over a fire ) are still widely available, though sometimes at a premium over flat-bottomed stovetop models.
Scrapple, also known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name pon haus, is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices.
In South Africa, a potjie (), directly translated " little pot " from Afrikaans or Dutch, is traditionally, a round, cast iron, three-legged ( tripod ) pot.
Americans traditionally season their iron Dutch ovens like other cast-iron cookware.
Counties in " Pennsylvania Dutch Country ", one of several regions in which Pennsylvania German and " Pennsylvania Dutch English " have traditionally been spoken.
Dutch cheese farmers traditionally brought their cheeses to the market square in town to sell.
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