Guilty Pleasures – Food unites! (9/25)
25 years of EWC directive, 25 years of EWC Service
One of the advantages of being a member of a European Works Council is that you get to taste many different foods. One of my ‘old-time’ favourites is to ask all the members to bring something special, nice and tasty food, something that is specific for your country. You cannot imagine how creative everyone gets to bring the country specials. Sometimes bottles of the best wines and home-brewed spirits are carried around Europe to have everyone taste ‘the best’ from home.
Bringing these delicious cakes, chocolates, sweets or cheese and many more, and explain what you have brought, gives a positive vibe and unites the group. It often also leads to an easy and informal chat with Management about all the ‘guilty pleasures’ put on the table. It could also happen that the home-brewed bottle is secretly shared under the table in a restaurant in the evening, or that the salty Dutch black liquorice suddenly disappears in the garbage bin.
Tasting the different country flavours is a good cultural learning experience and an enrichment for all!
I love the different cultural flavours and I hope to be enriched every time that I travel to a new European country or meet a new European Works Council.
Petra Molenaar EWC trainer/expert
