https://crystal.castle.cc/tag/brussels/ Recent content in Brussels on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:55:54 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2010/10/16/mussels-in-brussels-and-other-carbtastic-adventures/ Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:55:54 -0400 https://crystal.castle.cc/2010/10/16/mussels-in-brussels-and-other-carbtastic-adventures/ <p><a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/img_6176.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/img_6176.jpg" alt="" title="IMG_6176" width="450" height="600" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-941" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/img_6067.jpg"><img decoding="async" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/img_6067.jpg" alt="" title="IMG_6067" width="600" height="450" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-932" /></a></p> <p><em>You can get a classic moules-frites dinner with mussels, fries and a beer for about €13 in Brussels; Grand Place/Grote Markt is the central square of Brussels and recognized by UNESCO</em></p> <p>Several weeks ago, Professor <a href="http://vub.academia.edu/PeterScholliers">Peter Scholliers</a> of Vrije Universiteit in Brussels stopped by to give our class some lectures on Belgian and European food history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Soon afterwards, one of my roommates noticed that Ryanair flights from Torino to Brussels were quite inexpensive, and there was a four-day weekend coming up, so we made a spontaneous decision to treat ourselves to a weekend in Belgium. After all, isn&#8217;t the point of living in Europe that you can fly off at a moment&#8217;s notice to another country? I&#8217;d like to think we were inspired by class, so this was really a didactic experience anyway.</p>