In this issue:

Places

Groningen's second city, Appingedam; Schiedam, city of jenever, windmills and an ice skating saint; A bell-gabled house on Amsterdam's Leidsegracht, 

People

André Haspels, Dutch ambassador to the USA; Iconoclastic Dutch classical composer Louis Andriessen; Artist Claudy Jongstra. 

Cooking

Kerstbrunch: Banana and walnut Waffles; Christmas morning Muffins; Lemon-cranberry Loaf; Gouda Cheese Tart. 

Books and Art

Painters of Colonial Dutch Brazil, Albert Eckhout and Frans Post; Plough in Snowy Field by Willem van der Nat; Grote Markt in Haarlem by Billy Eric; ‘curfew’ – day(dream) #1,263, a poem by Alfred Scheffer from his collection Man Animal Thing; I Wish by Toon Tellegen, with artwork by Ingrid Godon; I Want A Lion by
Annemarie van der Eem, with artwork by Mark Janssen

Columns and Cartoons

Editor's Letter; Memories; Third Culture Kid; The Dutch Dished Up; Invading Holland; Van Oranje; the Dutch Judge.

And...

Reader letters and photographs for our tenth anniversary.

Contributors

Edina Bijvoet, Tom Bijvoet, Stuart Billinghurst, Ray Cavanaugh, Billy Eric, Gerrit Jan Groothedde, Pieter Hogenbirk, Jesse van Muylwijck, Alison Netsel, Ann Randall,
Herman Roozen, Paola Westbeek, Gerald van Wilgen, Mark Zegeling.