Monday, May 12, 2025, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Solemn entry of the German-speaking Community and the Fritkot Culture of East Belgium, Ostbelgien, at the Micro Belgian Fries Museum Brussels in Forest, in the presence of:

• Gregor FRECHES, Minister of Culture, Sports, Tourism and Media of the German-speaking Community of Belgium
• Charles SPAPENS, Mayor of Forest
• Bernard LEFEVRE, President of the Union Nationale des Frituristes (UNAFRI-NAVEFRI)
• Eric LEGRAIN, Artist.

Closing of the “Fritüure” exhibition by and with artist Eric Legrain. In partnership with the Representation of the German-speaking Community of Belgium in Brussels. With the complicity of Cuvée des Trolls de la Brasserie Dubuisson.

Fritkot culture, intangible heritage

Painted, photographed, filmed... and above all sketched, Belgian fries regularly make the “front pages” of both the national and international press. Since the end of July 2017, “Fritkot Culture” has been recognized as intangible cultural and/or oral heritage by all of Belgium's linguistic communities. Because it's thanks to the dissemination, since the end of the 19th century, of our fries stands (or fritkots) across the Kingdom that an infinite love has been born between every Belgian and every Frite, and vice versa.

Free and passionate about Belgian Fries

Hugues Henry has been nurturing this love since the end of the last century, to the point of having organized frite-related events for almost a quarter of a century and publishing the first major French-language book on the world of frites, “Carrément Frite” (Ed. Renaissance du Livre), in the wake of the opening of Home Frit' Home's Micro Musée de la Frite in Brussels, Forest, in 2011. This enthusiastic, family-friendly space (his whole family join in!) is open free of charge every first weekend of the month (or by appointment for group visits), and periodically features art exhibitions on Belgium.

Micro Belgian Fries Museum Brussels: l'Union fait la Frite

Home Frit' Home's Micro Fries Museum features over a thousand objects, documents, creations and works of art that tell the story of Belgian Fries, gastronomy and - of course! - Belgium. “As we approach our 15th anniversary, thanks to the painter Eric Legrain, currently on show with the exhibition “Fritüure”, an artist to be discovered, very popular in Ostbelgien, we have seized the opportunity to integrate, with all due care and attention, the traditional “Frittenbude” side of the frite into our micro-space. True artisan frites are Belgian first and foremost, but they can be enjoyed in all our communities. Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders were already well represented at the Micro Fries Museum Brussels. From now on, our German-speaking community will have its own space dedicated to “Fritten” at Home Frit' Home!” rejoices Hugues Henry.

With the complicity of Brasserie Dubuisson's Cuvée des Trolls.

Monday, May 12, 2025, from 6:00 p.m. Home Frit' Home, rue des Alliés 242, 1190 Bruxelles-Forest.