The cheese sandwich is now intangible cultural heritage
Haven’t we all grown up with it? Slice of bread, lick of butter, slice of cheese and ta-da: it’s hard to get more Dutch than that. From now on, the cheese sandwich is officially intangible cultural heritage. This weekend, Het Sieraad in Amsterdam will therefore pay tribute to the cheese sandwich.
Bakers’ association We Love Baking felt it was time to honour the cheese sandwich and submitted the ‘cheese sandwich culture’ to the Knowledge Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands at the beginning of 2019. It meets the requirements, and to celebrate this, the association is paying culinary tribute to the cheese sandwich during the ‘The Art of Bread’ exhibition.
Bolletje cheese sandwich ice cream
So what can you expect? During the exhibition, various exhibitions about bread will be on display. Think: ‘What does bread sound like?’ and ‘How many loaves of bread make up a human life?’. But you can also sample plenty of things (for a small price): ice cream with cheese sandwich flavour, toasties from De Tweede Jeugd, a glass of bread jenever or bread made with jenever. There are also baguette lamps made from real bread: the pampshade.
‘Cheese Sandwich Dinner’
In addition to the exhibition, on 9 May star chef Jermain de Rozario will serve a four-course dinner. The theme? The cheese sandwich. Here you’ll eat turbot baked on bread with a Parmesan cheese foam and finish with an ice cream cake made from young cheese and milk-infused bread. Unfortunately, tickets for ‘The Big Cheese Sandwich Dinner’ are sold out.
From Thursday 9 May to Sunday 12 May, The Art of Bread can be visited free of charge at Het Sieraad in Amsterdam.
