by Jacqui Eisen | Dec 4, 2015 | Events
Tomorrow is St. Nicolas Eve. In The Netherlands and around the world children of Dutch heritage will be setting out their wooden shoes. They will be going to bed not with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads but rather of pepernoten, taai-taai and chocolate...
by Jacqui Eisen | Nov 22, 2014 | Food for Thought
Have you ever paused to wonder why so many Dutch people celebrate St. Nicholas Day? The American version of Sinterklaas, Santa Claus is a jolly, generous soul, sufficiently non-sectarian to be acceptable to the majority of North Americans. But Sinterklaas arrives...
