There are enclaves in Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten if you are interested. I have visited all of those places, and the Dutch people there are fantastic, also, those "former Dutch" still do their Dutch dishes...OMG!!!!!! Something to think about!!!!!!!
The town of Lynden in Whatcom County was settled by Dutchmen. When I was young, we would go to a bakery there which had the most delicious and soft butter cookies. That's not what we called them of course ("Dutch cookies!"), but it is a reasonable description. Sometimes, we would get rusks. My maternal grandmother was a first generation Dutch daughter, and her cooking was absolutely wonderful. My mother learned from her. Nothing else ever so good.
In good Dutch fashion, the town was built on a slight highland above the farming fields...so that any flooding of the Nooksack River would not harm the town. The river was restrained by a dike.
On the topic, I am now reminded of an old adage: "Never separate a Dutchman from his gin!" I am slightly partial to gin...though in gin & tonics, which is a British (tropical) invention. I'm inclined to think there has been more commerce between the Netherlands and Great Britain than we are accustomed to think.
There are enclaves in Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten if you are interested. I have visited all of those places, and the Dutch people there are fantastic, also, those "former Dutch" still do their Dutch dishes...OMG!!!!!! Something to think about!!!!!!!
The town of Lynden in Whatcom County was settled by Dutchmen. When I was young, we would go to a bakery there which had the most delicious and soft butter cookies. That's not what we called them of course ("Dutch cookies!"), but it is a reasonable description. Sometimes, we would get rusks. My maternal grandmother was a first generation Dutch daughter, and her cooking was absolutely wonderful. My mother learned from her. Nothing else ever so good.
In good Dutch fashion, the town was built on a slight highland above the farming fields...so that any flooding of the Nooksack River would not harm the town. The river was restrained by a dike.
On the topic, I am now reminded of an old adage: "Never separate a Dutchman from his gin!" I am slightly partial to gin...though in gin & tonics, which is a British (tropical) invention. I'm inclined to think there has been more commerce between the Netherlands and Great Britain than we are accustomed to think.