{"id":62,"date":"2016-04-25T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/?p=62"},"modified":"2016-04-27T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:18:25","slug":"the-royal-carrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/en\/the-royal-carrot\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ROYAL CARROT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\nIn the late 16th century, Dutch growers used their advanced knowledge of plants for political purposes. Until that time, pretty much all carrots were purple with mutated versions occasionally popping up such as yellow and white carrots. Presumably crosses between Eastern carrots (purple), Western carrots (white, red) and wild carrots led to the formation of a novelty: the\u00a0orange carrot. This variety was\u00a0patriotically bred to match the colour of the Dutch Royal House of Orange, as a homage to Prince William of Orange, the founding father of the Netherlands.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wortels-Willem-van-Oranje-233x300-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"wortels-Willem-van-Oranje-233x300\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">The so-called Horn Carrot derives from the picturesque town of Hoorn (45 km north from Amsterdam), in the neighborhood of which it was presumably bred. \u00a0The contemporary\u00a0orange carrot wasn\u2019t cultivated until the\u00a0growers took mutant strains of the purple carrot and gradually developed them into the sweet orange variety we have today.\u00a0<\/span>A thousand years of yellow, white and purple carrot history was wiped out in a generation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wortels-oranje-300x221-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"wortels-oranje-300x221\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;The color of sedition&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to historian Simon Schama, in the late 18th century, the Dutch Patriot movement that revolted against the House of Orange saw the vegetable as an offensive tribute to the monarchy. After forcing the reigning descendent of William of Orange to leave the Hague, the Patriots declared that orange was \u201cthe color of sedition&#8230; carrots sold with their roots too conspicuously showing were deemed provocative,\u201d Schama w<span class=\"s2\">rote\u00a0<\/span>in his book Patriots and Liberators&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Carrot Museum<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">There is a Carrot Museum and\u00a0Carrot Club in Berlotte near Eynatten (Belgium),\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">a tiny village of about 30 houses, a chapel and a Carrot Collection and Display.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0The extremely small Carrot Museum, founded in 1992, is housed inside the tower of a disused electricity sub-station. The carroty exhibits can only be viewed through a window. By turning a wheel outside, you can rotate the display. The tower has a carrot weather-vane, carrot clock and carrot light.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Berlotter Kirchweg, 4731 Eynatten (4 km from the German border)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 16th century, Dutch growers used their advanced knowledge of plants for political purposes. Until that time, pretty much all carrots were purple with mutated versions occasionally popping up such as yellow and white carrots. 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