Testing Europe’s Cultural Waters in Haarlem

Main square in Haarlem, Netherlands Rick Steves/Rick Steves' Europe

I’m under the towering church spire in the tidy Dutch market town of Haarlem, tempted to eat a pickled herring. The sign atop the mobile van reads: “Jos Haring—Gezond en Lekkerrr” (healthy and deeeeeelicious).

I order by pointing and ask, “Gezond?”