ANALOGUE: Zaanstreek - North Holland "The Dutch Pantry If you were to use a time machine to explore the Zaan region’s past, you wouldn’t need to look at the calendar to know in what era you arrived: you could simply follow your nose! Is that fresh sawdust making you sneeze? Then you must be in the 17th century! Is there an unbearable stench of cod liver oil? Then you’ve gone back another century! But if all you can smell is cocoa powder and sugary biscuits, then it must be around 1900!"