We use pepper and salt every day. Nobody realizes that it was precisely those simple ingredients that initially attracted the Dutch over the oceans. To the West for the salt. To the East for the pepper. It seems like a simple story, but of course there was much more to it and there was a lot more to it before those proud East Indiamen controlled the oceans and the Low Countries became the Golden Republic.
| Camera | Klaas Slot | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Jaap de Moor | Editor |
| Editing | Ton Vermeulen | Editor |
| Directing | Jan Dorresteijn | Director |
| Writing | Felix Thijssen | Writer |
| Editing | Martine Wolff | Editor |