Non-perishable products from Rotterdam restaurant women

Maaike Kauffman

Manager and sommelier at Héroine, fine-dining restaurant in the Industriegebouw

‘My colleague Linda was going to prepare a dish for the Heroine dinner and I was going to provide some of the wine. The dinner was cancelled, but we decided to fill a box with products from the participants. You’ll find our arancello, a limoncello of blood oranges, in the box. In one of our desserts, we use dried blood orange wedges. Because we throw away as little as possible, we decided to make arancello from the peel. While we remain closed because of the coronavirus, you can still get takeaways from Héroine, and we deliver. We offer a four-course menu that you can easily finish at home with help from the instruction video.’

Charlotte Smelik

Founder and owner of Das Brot, sourdough bread bakery on Gouvernestraat

‘We were going to serve our sourdough bread at the Heroine dinner, a tasty, firm bread made from organic flour from the Schiedam mills. We also sell this bread at our bakery on Gouvernestraat, and we used to supply to various Rotterdam restaurants. Our sourdough starter is in the box. Because many people are at home now, they are doing a lot of baking. With the sourdough starter, you can make sourdough bread yourself. Our bakery has been open throughout the corona period. We have a small shop where the one-and-a-half-metre rule is easy to enforce. You can also receive our bread at home via the Local Goodness Box (www.localgoodnessbox.nl), which we set up together with Jack Bean and Landzicht.

Anastasia de Ruyter

Co-owner Lof der Zoetheid, breakfast, lunch and sweet pastries

‘I had prepared a special dish for the Heroine dinner: an edible tribute to the Rotterdam writer Elfie Tromp. Unfortunately, that has to wait, but for the box, I was able to deliver my classic caramel sea salt spread. I’ve always had an obsession with caramel. This spread is one of the first things I learned to make. You can spread it on bread, put it in pastries or – my favourite – eat it straight from the jar. The Lof der Zoetheid Takeaway Counter is open from Tuesday to Sunday for coffee to go and savoury and sweet treats.’