25-07-2016
The futuristic Market Hall in Rotterdam is a beautiful site that opened in 2014. It’s a meeting place and an emblem of the city’s vocation for innovative food
Yesterday we began our trip across the food novelties we found in Rotterdam, with the story of Koppert Cress and Dutch Cuisine (read here). Yet the Dutch city has much more to offer: after all, it defines itself as “The agro-food delta of Europe”. The industry here is huge and the port – the largest on the continent, with 1.8 million cube metres of air-conditioned warehouses and over 750 thousand refrigerated ones – is bustling with fruit, vegetables, juices, soy, corn, food oil, wheat, seeds.
Food multinationals here flourish, yet there’s also attention to small producers. The new iconic Market Hall represents the meeting of these two realities. This beautiful site opened in 2014. It hosts around one hundred producers, 15 food stores and 8 restaurants. Micro-businesses have the main role in the KunsthalCooks & Cultivates Festival, a sort of Salone del Gusto taking place every two years. It focuses on new trends in healthy and sustainable food. Innovation in the food industry is indeed a challenge the city experiences daily, through many projects.
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journalist born in 1974, for many years he has covered politics, mostly, and food in his free time. Today he does exactly the opposite and this makes him very happy. As soon as he can, he dives into travels and good food. Identità Golose's editor in chief