While many Europeans will wait until the end of December for their Christmas celebrations, the Dutch have already got going. This evening (5 December) signifies the Sinterklaas evening with the ...

This time of the year you can't escape the traditional Sinterklaas candy, with Taaitaai kruid/pepernoten, chocolate letters and other 'strooigoed'. Gevulde speculaas is also a traditional Dutch ...

On Dec. 6 we celebrated the feast of St. Nicholas – Sant Nikolas in German or Sinterklaas in Dutch. It led me to reminisce how I anticipated this feast as a child. We would set our shoes by the ...