History on Our Plate

Peter G. Rose is the author of The Sensible Cook: Dutch Foodways in the Old and New World and coauthor with Donna R. Barnes of Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life and Childhood Pleasures: Dutch Children in the Seventeenth Century.

This extremely informative book offers historical insight into the Dutch culinary heritage in America, together with recipes, to give us an enticing taste of the past. Thank you, Peter Rose, for another great publication on our shared culinary traditions! ‘You are what you eat’ may be a cliché but it does embody the most important activity central to life: the preparation and consumption of food. Rose’s engaging book celebrates this activity among the Dutch settlers in the Hudson Valley with 72 historical recipes, a highly informative essay on Dutch foodways of the period, and instructions on how to cook the dishes in a home fireplace.