Wednesday, April 30, 2025

ARTICLES BY VIRGINIA MAYO

Pandemic holds few lessons for European chefs, mostly misery

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Necessity is supposed to be the mother of invention. If that were the case for the high-end restaurant industry, the coronavirus pandemic should have offered ample opportunities for creativity and renewal.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Pandemic holds few lessons for European chefs, mostly misery

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Necessity is supposed to be the mother of invention. If that were the case for the high-end restaurant industry, the coronavirus pandemic should have offered ample opportunities for creativity and renewal.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Pandemic holds few lessons for European chefs, mostly misery

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Necessity is supposed to be the mother of invention. If that were the case for the high-end restaurant industry, the coronavirus pandemic should have offered ample opportunities for creativity and renewal.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Pandemic holds few lessons for European chefs, mostly misery

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Necessity is supposed to be the mother of invention. If that were the case for the high-end restaurant industry, the coronavirus pandemic should have offered ample opportunities for creativity and renewal.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Artist gives life to Belgian boot-scrapers during pandemic

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Life can feel smaller, even tiny during the coronavirus pandemic as public health restrictions limit social contacts to a bare minimum. But Belgian artist Elke Lemmens has found a way to build connections during the ongoing crisis.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Artist gives life to Belgian boot-scrapers during pandemic

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Life can feel smaller, even tiny during the coronavirus pandemic as public health restrictions limit social contacts to a bare minimum. But Belgian artist Elke Lemmens has found a way to build connections during the ongoing crisis.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Virus makes for one of Europe's loneliest WWI remembrances

YPRES, Belgium (AP) — When a dawn fog lifted over countless World War I battlefields, cemeteries and monuments in Belgium and France Wednesday, the pandemic ensured that the remembrance of the millions killed in the 1914-1918 conflict was one of the loneliest ever.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Artist gives life to Belgian boot-scrapers during pandemic

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Life can feel smaller, even tiny during the coronavirus pandemic as public health restrictions limit social contacts to a bare minimum. But Belgian artist Elke Lemmens has found a way to build connections during the ongoing crisis.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Belgian with 20% lung capacity starts home mask sewing army

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — With only 20% of normal lung capacity, Sien Lagae was extremely wary of viruses before anyone in Belgium heard of the coronavirus — and has long relied on caregivers to help her get dressed, clean her house and provide home health care services.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Belgium Attacks

A woman is evacuated in an ambulance by emergency services after a explosion in a main metro station in Brussels on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Explosions rocked the Brussels airport and the subway system Tuesday just days after the main suspect in the November Paris attacks was arrested in the …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

More stories