Janny de Moor produced this book jointly with Nico de Rooij and Albert Tielemans. It is the English translation of the original Dutch edition Het kookboek van de eeuw: De beste...
Meet the matchless cuisine of Europe! Here most culinary traditions of the world have originated. Here a constant process of innovation has set and is still setting worldwide trends...
For obvious reasons people attributed erotic qualities to the asparagus. Max de Roche claims in The foods of love (1990): "the asparagus undoubtedly awakens Venus". He passes on a...
The Netherlands are famous for their vegetable growing all over Europe. And they started very early: from 1500 on they were an example for their neighbors during at least...
Pancakes are an enormously popular meal in the Netherlands, not only for children, but for all who feel young at heart. The easy to make pancake was and is...
Dutch books
Kok in eigen kring
Den Haag: Omniboek n.y. (1980) ISBN 90 6207 202 x
1983: Koken voor elkaar
Ede: Zomer & Keuning, 1983 ISBN 90 210 1011 9
1984 Buitenlands brood en gebak
Ede: Zomer...
Across the world and throughout history baking has always been a festive occasion. Bread and pastry were luxuries compared to cooked cereals. It required finer flour, oil or butter,...
It is generally agreed that the words wafer and waffle (Dutch wafel) must be derived from the Germanic verb weben ‘to weave’. The biscuits owe their name to their appearance...
A beautiful painting by the Dutch painter Jan Steen is exposed in the Fabre museum in Montpellier, France. Its title is the well-known proverb: "As the Old sang, so...