The Favorites of FavorFlav’s Marcel Langedijk
Every week, columnist Marcel Langedijk, formerly from Amsterdam, writes about how he’s doing as a foodie in De Provincie. Often remarkably well, as his stories about the local butcher and his merguez sausages and the lack of hospitality jerks beyond the city limits demonstrate. Here, he reveals a little more about himself.
Always in the fridge
“Oat milk. Because dairy is the devil, I once heard from someone important. And I simply like it better than milk. By the way, I have nothing against people who consume dairy or the farmers who produce it.”
Favorite drink
“Without alcohol: coffee and sparkling water. With alcohol: a very, very good pinot noir or a special beer.”
Favorite family recipe
“My family isn’t really into making up recipes themselves. It was quite something that there was food on the table at all, and if you wanted something different, you could just make it yourself. With your face. We weren’t pathetic or poor or anything; food simply wasn’t a priority. It is now, including for my parents. But more in the sense that we eat out an above-average amount and talk about it a lot. Recipes are for people who know what they’re doing.”
Favorite ingredient
“Not necessarily an ingredient, but who’s going to stop me? So: sambal. I always have several varieties in the fridge. From hot to face-numbing. I’m Marcel and I’m addicted.”
Favorite hangover meal
“As the guys from Rowwen Heze sing: plenty, fatty and insanely salty.”
Guilty pleasure
“M&M’s. Preferably one of those twenty-seven-kilo bags they sell at airports.”
Favorite (budget) kitchen tool
“The IKEA 365+ chef’s knife. It costs a little over twenty euros and was recently named the best buy in a Consumers’ Association test. No doubt sacrilege in the Church of International Knife Connoisseurs, but I love committing sacrilege in churches. And I love my IKEA chef’s knife.”
I always buy this ready-made
“Wine.”
If I could eat only one cuisine for the rest of my life
“Thai. Without a doubt. So many herbs, regions, flavors and ingredients that you could easily keep going with it for a lifetime. Or half a lifetime, because I’m already medium-old.”
Strangest dish I’ve ever eaten
“Fugu. That’s the fish you can die from. Ridiculous, of course, but I was sort of young and thought I was immortal. And it was in Tokyo, at a three-star restaurant, which helped too.”
Never again
“One of those huge extra-large oysters that everyone said was incredibly special. The fact that I managed to get it down is still in my top three Greatest Victories Over Myself. Oysters are fun, but two at most, normal-sized, and then with a bottle of champagne. That bottle may be extra-large, though.”
When I don’t feel like cooking
“I get the special chicken roti from Rams in Amsterdam. Which is difficult when you live in Drenthe, I know.”
The best cooking tip I’ve ever received
“Let me do this for a moment.”
My last supper
“Three saucijzenbroodjes from a good bakery, a bottle of Ruinart and a substantial Padron—that’s a cigar from Nicaragua.”
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