The Miracle That Fed Amsterdam: Pilgrims, Beer and One Unburnable Host

The Day Amsterdam Got a Miracle In 1345, Amsterdam was still a modest medieval town clustered around the Amstel when something happened in a house near the Kalverstraat that would change its fortunes. There were no grand canal houses yet, no Golden Age merchants and certainly no tourists queuing for stroopwafels. Amsterdam had trade, fishermen, […]