The Dutch Table

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The great tradition of Dutch painting reached its peak with the still-life and genre paintings of the seventeenth-century Golden Age, when the skill of the Dutch masters coincided with a period of unparalleled prosperity and calm. Their paintings glow with enticing food and drink—cornucopias of fruit and vegetables tumble over market stalls and scrubbed kitchen tables; fresh meat, fowl, and fish are prepared for the stewpot and spit; cheeses are piled in golden profusion; and tasty snacks of good bread, herring, and beer are laid out—ever fresh, ever tempting.
These artistic gastronomic delights are as beguiling to the eye as the oriental carpets, exquisite lace, fine glass, and porcelain which accompany them; painted to whet the appetite, charm the senses, and tease the mind with symbolic warnings of the fate of the overindulgent.
Could the cuisine of the Netherlands ever have matched this mouth-watering display? This selection of recipes gathered from the diligent and... Tovább

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The great tradition of Dutch painting reached its peak with the still-life and genre paintings of the seventeenth-century Golden Age, when the skill of the Dutch masters coincided with a period of unparalleled prosperity and calm. Their paintings glow with enticing food and drink—cornucopias of fruit and vegetables tumble over market stalls and scrubbed kitchen tables; fresh meat, fowl, and fish are prepared for the stewpot and spit; cheeses are piled in golden profusion; and tasty snacks of good bread, herring, and beer are laid out—ever fresh, ever tempting.
These artistic gastronomic delights are as beguiling to the eye as the oriental carpets, exquisite lace, fine glass, and porcelain which accompany them; painted to whet the appetite, charm the senses, and tease the mind with symbolic warnings of the fate of the overindulgent.
Could the cuisine of the Netherlands ever have matched this mouth-watering display? This selection of recipes gathered from the diligent and imaginative cooks of the Golden Age provides a triumphant affirmative. Early cookery notebooks were filled with the delicious dishes of traditional northern European cooking—a tradition which, as pioneering settlers, they also brought with them to the New World.
The unsung heroines of this tradition are not the grand papal chefs or scholarly enthusiasts of the Italian Renaissance but the anonymous, cheerful, self-sufficient housewives of the affluent bourgeois establishments, country estates, and modern town houses of the prosperous Dutch Republic. It was indeed a Golden Age of painting and cooking—and a proud heritage. Vissza