The long tables are laid with watermelon slices, Middle-Eastern dips and orange candles. The kitchen and bar bustle with life. And – dressed immaculately in red – queen Máxima is officially opening an Amsterdam kitchen about far more than food. A Beautiful Mess, on the ground floor of the multinational Booking, is a social initiative to provide jobs and training for refugees and a melting pot for integration and mutual understanding. The intention, said founder Fleur Bakker of Refugee Company, Read this story
