Gnoe’s Graasland (‘Grassland’) is a prairie showing a variation of wild flowers, grasses and shrubbery. In other words: an eclectic weblog, evolving over time. My nickname ‘Gnoe’ is Dutch for gnu (almost identically pronounced) a.k.a. wildebeest. And I roam my fields in freedom.
As a museum (information) specialist I’m clearly interested in cultural & natural Heritage. That’s probably why I try to keep my ecological footprint to a minimum? I love film, reading, snailmail, journaling (art, smash-, junk-, travel-, bullet), hiking, GOOD food – which must be vegan, cooking & baking, bento and anything relating to it. I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian until January 27th 2011, so up until that date you will find posts sharing recipes/bentos that may containing eggs and dairy. To be completely clear: those are not vegan.
I have a fascination for Japan and Indonesia – without ever having been there (LONG story), and have very fond feelings for the Provence (France) and Cappadocia (Turkey).
Nowadays I mostly post in English, but I have not always done so: I started out in Dutch and went through a transition period in which I alternated between languages. To make Graasland accessible to international readers I keep a special ‘English posts‘ category.
Where else?
Gnoe is featured on several other places in cyberspace.
As a book blogger
- I’m part of Leeswammes’ Book Bloggers Abroad guest post series
As a bentoïst
- Food journalist Janneke Vreugdenhil wrote a column about Gnoe & bento in a major national newspaper: nrcnext.
- Following the nrcnext article Bento Babe plugged my site some more.
- My autumnal Tsukimi Bento won the September 2010 B.O.M.B. challenge on hapa bento.
- ‘The Big Onigiri’ Maki spotlighted my Bright — Light in the Dark Days — Bento in her Great Bento Idea of the Week series on JustBento, the place to go for veteran & maiden bentoïsts.
I also used to contribute to the collaborative Dutch Kookgrrls’ foodies weblog.
Contact details on my contact page.
Gnoe on Instagram
Gnoe Graasland in Goodreads
@graasland on Twitter (inactive)
Shashinjutsu and Gnoe’s Postcrossing on Flickr (semi-inactive)
Gnoe on Swap-Bot (semi-inactive)
Gnoe on Postcrossing (inactive)
Gnoe at Bookcrossing (inactive)
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dinsdag 21 april 2009 bij 15:15
Iris Mintjes
Hoi! Ik zou graag in contact met je komen omdat ik zelf ook graag bento’s maak! En ook in Utrecht woon :)
Groetjes! Iris
donderdag 29 oktober 2009 bij 16:27
kmont
You have a very lovely blog. I’m enjoying checking it out!
donderdag 31 december 2009 bij 11:48
Arja
Een gnoe was wonderlijkerwijze
verzot op gloeiende saucijzen.
Hij at ze op het Leidseplein
doch nimmer meer dan zes dozijn.
En als men naar de reden vroeg
dan zei die gnoe: ‘Dat vind ik gnoeg.’
uit: Kees Stip, Het Grote Beestenfeest. De beste Trijntje Fops aller tijden.
donderdag 31 december 2009 bij 11:57
gnoegnoe
LOL Maar deze Gnoe eet geen saucijzen, zoals het een normale gnoe betaamt ;)
woensdag 6 januari 2010 bij 17:02
Sasha
Hi, Gnoe. I gave you an award! http://silverfysh.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/honest-scrap-meme/
Take it easy. :)
dinsdag 19 januari 2010 bij 04:06
Kitsune
I am lacto-ovo vegetarian too! :)
dinsdag 29 juni 2010 bij 11:40
rustka
Hallo Gnoe… nice to meet you here and thank you for your sweet comments on my flickr :)
woensdag 1 december 2010 bij 19:45
litera
“English posts” category is a very good idea – maybe I’ll make something like that on my own blog;)
Anyway, just wanted do say “hi!”;)
vrijdag 6 juli 2012 bij 22:53
Beth Parks Aronson
Found you from the Goodreads Orange July thread. Will keep an eye on the English posts!
woensdag 18 september 2013 bij 23:39
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