Maybe the biggest difference is in what we eat. At lunch we have something small, some bread and greens for instance, and then we cook in the evening. And so when I eat the school lunch I’m not hungry in the evening, and if I don’t eat lunch at school, everyone thinks I’m giving myself airs and graces. And so I’m always either famished or stuffed. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I’m a vegetarian, but that’s not too much of a problem, you can get decent vegetarian food in Prague. But when I travel somewhere with my pals or with the school the cooks say, “But that’s also vegetarian food, there’s no meat in that, it’s just pork broth”. How am I meant to tell them that it makes me want to heave? But at home we eat normally, we cook just about everything. A Dutch speciality? Well, in winter, for instance, that would be stamppot – mashed potato with cabbage or with a special salad called boerenkool, which we bring over from Holland, with bratwurst, which obviously I don’t eat. In Dutch we say that food is lekker, which means… really good, but you can’t say it in Czech, because it’s more than just good, it’s, well, it’s lekker, know what I mean? |