REIP@localhost: Dinner announcement

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                             ANNOUNCEMENT:

                        25th RIPE Meeting Dinner




Time:       Tuesday, September 24th 1996
            20:00
                              
Venue:      De Waag
	    Nieuwmarkt
            Amsterdam

Price:      Dfl 45,-

Last date for reservations: 

     Monday, September 23rd, at the RIPE meeting
     (Although you can also subscribe at the meeting, we would
     appreciate you sending in the form below, especially if you have
     a 'special diet description' to fill in.)

Directions to venue:

     The restaurant is in the centre of Amsterdam, very near to 
     Amsterdam Central Station. From Central Station you can walk
     to Nieuwmarkt via "Zeedijk" and via "Gelderse kade". You can
     also take the metro, exit one stop after Central Station. 

     For information about Nieuwmarkt and de Waag you can 
     take a look at: http://www.channels.nl/nieuwmar.html
     and http://www.waag.org

History of de Waag:

    No less than 169 'waags', or weighing-houses have been built in
    the Netherlands, but only one still stands in the heart of Amsterdam,
    surrounded by a complex grid of canals and streets, right on the 
    'New Market'. This stout two-storey structure was built in 1488 as
    town entrance and together with the Haarlem gate (Haarlemmerpoort) was
    considered the strongest of Amsterdam's tower entrances.

    With it's heavy stone walls, large gates and the acoustics of a
    castle, the Middle-Ages are still tangible in De Waag. It is a
    place where now, after five hundred years, food and drink can be
    enjoyed in a flamboyant, Bourgondian manner. 


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Menu:

Home made pate with cornichons

Codfish with safron-saus

Salad of watercress, preserved cucumber, apple and almonds

		***

Lambshank stewed in tomato

Tartelet with aubergine and tomato

Pan with mussels stewed in beer

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Cheese plate

Warm applepie with cinammon icecream

"Esdoorn" walnut icecream

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For reservations please fill in the following form and return it to
meeting@localhost. Don't delete the special keywords starting with %
sign and type your answers between the square brackets. Multiple lines
are allowed.


%START


1)  Your name

    %NAME   [                     ]


2)  Your e-mail address 

    %EMAIL  [                     ]


3)  Please indicate if you have special dietary needs. 
    If you specify something here, you probably don't have to answer
    question 4.
    (Note that vegetarians don't have to fill this in, as there are 
    vegetarian menu options.)
    You can use more lines as long as the description starts and ends with
    a bracket. 

    %SDIET [             ]

4)  Please decide on the menu that you will (probably) choose,
    because we will have to give the restaurant estimates in advance.
    Please remove 2 of the 3 given options from the line.

    %MENU1 [ pate / codfish / salad ]

    %MENU2 [ lambshank / tartelet / mussels ]

    %MENU3 [ cheeseplate / applepie / icecream ]

%END