ORIGIN

Stuffed oranges

Straight to the recipe A feast for the eye This recipe is from the great Antonin Carême, the Frenchman who…

9 years ago

Soup with Sauerkraut? Delicious!

Straight to the recipe A Russian recipe from 1861 During my preparations for a presentation in October 2014 in the Hermitage…

10 years ago

Roman chestnuts

Straight to the recipe High in carbohydrates, low-fat, gluten free Edible chestnuts were probably introduced in the Netherlands by the Romans. Dutch summers…

10 years ago

Eggs with gooseberries

Straight to the recipe An odd but tasty dish Recently I published an article in the periodical De Boekenwereld (The Book World)…

11 years ago

Tamarind ice-cream

Straight to the recipe An exotic flavour from the nineteenth century   Last year I had the good fortune to…

11 years ago

‘Gilt poverty’

Straight to the recipe A very simple recipe from 'the first Dutch television cook' The information on this page concerns…

11 years ago

Barley soup for a ball

Straight to the recipe Double take The Netherlands celebrated the bicentennial of their existence as a kingdom in 2013. But at the…

11 years ago

Dutch barley soup

Straight to the recipe This barley soup is not French haute cuisine as Carême's recipe is. It is Dutch and was published in Aaltje, de…

11 years ago

Clear Oxtail Soup

Haute cuisine for the Middle Class In my youth we used to eat oxtail soup as the first course of…

11 years ago

Salade Russe the Russian Way

Straight to the recipe A recipe from 1866 The choice for this recipe is the result of a lecture I…

12 years ago