I cook, I eat and I wonder. Follow my food adventures on this blog.

About this blog
Writing and cooking are similar. You trust your intuition to add, marinate and experiment until you can serve up something tasty, in which all ingredients are balanced – something spicy and surprising or something more familiar and comforting. What exciting concoctions do you get if you combine the two? Join me in this ongoing experiment.

About my work
Food, drink, travel and art, they are the ingredients that make life delicious. I use these ingredients to tell stories about people, their surroundings and their habits. What is the lure of a Rotterdam market where Dutch beans and Surinamese okras are displayed side by side? What is the drive of a young French farmer who spends all his waking hours working in his own vineyard? Where does an Italian gelato maker find inspiration to create new imaginative flavors every week?

With a hunger for knowledge I get to the bottom of each story. I work as a freelance journalist for Dutch and international publications. I also bring flavor to copy as an editor and translator. Please contact me if you would like to know more about my work or if I can be of any help.

Irene de Vette