High quality Dutch cultivation
Proud of home-grown products
Counter reaction
As a reaction to the disadvantages of globalisation, a counter movement is developing in various European countries: the re-valuation of own, local products. Countries rediscover the value of their own farmers and kitchen and have a fresh look to the qualities of the products they can offer. With local products and kitchens countries try to respond to and shape future food challenges, such as food shortages and sustainability of the food chain.
1 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566
2 https://www.ft.com/content/db3427f5-5394-4661-8e52-6447fd3d9ae9
3 https://meyers.dk/en/the-new-nordic-cuisine-movement/
4 https://dutch-cuisine.nl/over-dutch-cuisine/
5 https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/37738/table?ts=1590064222904
The other side of globalisation
Other countries more and more discover their own kitchen and own products as well. The Dutch Cuisine organization puts the unique Dutch kitchen and food culture on the map, both nationally as well as internationally4. And justly, because The Netherlands grows billions of kilos of high-quality products, which Le Duc gladly uses for its veggie appetizers. For example, The Netherlands grew 1,2 billion(!) onions already in 2019!5. Le Duc, as a specialist, lives amidst these onion- and potato fields, and thinks the best products grow on its Western Netherlands fields. That is why Le Duc’s products are filled with nature. Le Duc shows this as no other in its products with fair ingredients and natural raw materials. For example, for the breaded mushrooms, Le Duc uses Dutch mushrooms from grower Vedemij. Le Duc is able to, though its expertise, let the world taste the best Dutch products. Curious how mushrooms are grown and how they finally end up on your fork? Read further quickly!
Pride as a value is key in this movement. Proud of farmers. Proud of home-grown products. Proud of own kitchen. A frontrunner in this movement? Scandinavia. They got there early with the New Nordic Cuisine. Founders Claus Meyer and René Redzepi deepened themselves in local Danish ingredients in 2004. It turned out that those food professionals attach great value to home grown ingredients. In the New Nordic Manifesto Meyer and Redzepi included 10 guidelines for the “new” kitchen. In this Manifest the encourage chefs and food producers to promote products from Scandinavia and express the values they associate with their region: purity, freshness, ethics and simplicity. The worldwide success of New Nordic Cuisine is noted: the incredibly popular restaurant Noma in Copenhagen comes from the hands of the same founders3!
Next to these nice advantages, globalisation also has its disadvantages. For example, the climate pollution by air traffic is enormous1. Another disadvantage of globalisation is painfully visible momentarily. Due to covid-19 the world wide trade has decreased. It is expected that trade will decrease with 1/5 this year. Possibly this will lead to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression which started in 19292.
The megatrend globalisation has made an enormous impact on all our lives the past decades. It has formed us to who we all are nowadays: world citizens. Thanks to the more and more innovative technology, and fading borders, we travel around the world, we purchase throughout the world with Amazon and AliExpress and enjoy massively once local dishes like sushi and burritos.
home-grown!
tasty
1 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566
2 https://www.ft.com/content/db3427f5-5394-4661-8e52-6447fd3d9ae9
3 https://meyers.dk/en/the-new-nordic-cuisine-movement/
4 https://dutch-cuisine.nl/over-dutch-cuisine/
5 https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/37738/table?ts=1590064222904
High quality Dutch cultivation
Other countries more and more discover their own kitchen and own products as well. The Dutch Cuisine organization puts the unique Dutch kitchen and food culture on the map, both nationally as well as internationally4. And justly, because The Netherlands grows billions of kilos of high-quality products, which Le Duc gladly uses for its veggie appetizers. For example, The Netherlands grew 1,2 billion(!) onions already in 2019!5. Le Duc, as a specialist, lives amidst these onion- and potato fields, and thinks the best products grow on its Western Netherlands fields. That is why Le Duc’s products are filled with nature. Le Duc shows this as no other in its products with fair ingredients and natural raw materials. For example, for the breaded mushrooms, Le Duc uses Dutch mushrooms from grower Vedemij. Le Duc is able to, though its expertise, let the world taste the best Dutch products. Curious how mushrooms are grown and how they finally end up on your fork? Read further quickly!
Proud of home-grown products
Pride as a value is key in this movement. Proud of farmers. Proud of home-grown products. Proud of own kitchen. A frontrunner in this movement? Scandinavia. They got there early with the New Nordic Cuisine. Founders Claus Meyer and René Redzepi deepened themselves in local Danish ingredients in 2004. It turned out that those food professionals attach great value to home grown ingredients. In the New Nordic Manifesto Meyer and Redzepi included 10 guidelines for the “new” kitchen. In this Manifest the encourage chefs and food producers to promote products from Scandinavia and express the values they associate with their region: purity, freshness, ethics and simplicity. The worldwide success of New Nordic Cuisine is noted: the incredibly popular restaurant Noma in Copenhagen comes from the hands of the same founders3!
Counter reaction
As a reaction to the disadvantages of globalisation, a counter movement is developing in various European countries: the re-valuation of own, local products. Countries rediscover the value of their own farmers and kitchen and have a fresh look to the qualities of the products they can offer. With local products and kitchens countries try to respond to and shape future food challenges, such as food shortages and sustainability of the food chain.
The other side of globalisation
Next to these nice advantages, globalisation also has its disadvantages. For example, the climate pollution by air traffic is enormous1. Another disadvantage of globalisation is painfully visible momentarily. Due to covid-19 the world wide trade has decreased. It is expected that trade will decrease with 1/5 this year. Possibly this will lead to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression which started in 19292.
The megatrend globalisation has made an enormous impact on all our lives the past decades. It has formed us to who we all are nowadays: world citizens. Thanks to the more and more innovative technology, and fading borders, we travel around the world, we purchase throughout the world with Amazon and AliExpress and enjoy massively once local dishes like sushi and burritos.
home-grown!
tasty