Indo Dutch Kitchen Secrets: Stories & Favorite Family Recipes From Stroopwefel to Rijsttafel Hardcover – December 6, 2016

Indo Dutch Kitchen Secrets: Stories & Favorite Family Recipes from Stroopwafel to Rijsttafel is an extraordinary new book by Jeff Keasberry. The book is a tour de force bringing together Indo and Dutch cultures in a symphonic multicultural culinary experience. The book connects to how the past can be usable by present generations in joyful ways, how cultures can meet and create an extraordinary fusion, and how we can learn from the ways in which hosting traditions in Indo-Dutch culture contribute to sustainable, deep community ties. Hosting friends at feasts, and connecting the small plates of Tapas to an Indonesian multiplicity of flavors and Dutch culinary techniques can create a rich cultural tradition in the form of Rijsttafel. Jeff tells the story of the cuisine, the cultures that came together to make it possible, and why we should reuse the intergenerational conversational container that is a conversation over rijsttafel today. I really think that Jeff did a service to a modern global audience of english language readers who are passionate about Rijsttafel's potential as a culinary and hedonistic bridge between cultures and people.

My Oma's family spent three generations in Batavia working for The Company, and growing up seven-to-nine dish riijstafels were special family occasions. As I got older, I started to wonder if I should be troubled by questions of "authenticity", cultural approbation and the lingering implications of European colonialism inherent in such approbation.Happily, as this book attests, the answer is a resounding NO! This is delicious fusion cuisine and should be enjoyed the world over. It was so interesting to read the stories of another Dutch-Indo descendent, especially another from Southern California. I guess there's a reason for the Holland markets here (yay, Holland markets)!

Dutch Indonesian food is a fusion of two very different cultures that resulted in delicious food. It may have originated in Java, but after World War II it left for other countries around the world, including the Netherlands, US, and Australia. I grew up in a Dutch Indonesian family in southern California and can verify that these are authentic and accurate recipes that cover the full range of foods prepared in my home (although every family has their special version). The book is beautifully designed with lots of photos as well as a stories of the author's family migrations from Indonesia to the Netherlands to the US. I've given it as gifts to my family.

Being Dutch/ Indonesian, or Indo, the majority of these recipes are very genuine. Some are modified, but no complaints. Love the book! and was lucky to still get one. Very neat and well written and the Bonus is, that more that half the recipes are Gluten Free and fairly easy to cook. I bought this one for my son and daughter in law, since they love Indo food and they live so far away, I am not able to teach them the How To's.

I really like this book for it’s vivid photographs of well prepared Dutch Indonesian foods. I look forward to learning more about preparing foods and presenting them at festive social get togethers with friends and family who live more close to home. The colonial past of Indonesia is what interests me most, now that I have lived most of my life as a Canadian citizen. I still have fond memories of how well my family got along with Indonesian people, and of the basic qualities of respect and appreciation that were cultivated by people of different cultures. Sharing festive meals is naturally an enjoyable way to strengthen our human relationships. I highly recommend this book. Thanks.

Love this cookbook, has all the indo-Dutch favorites I grew up eating. Beautiful full page photos, lots of details on substitutions and explanation of ingredients and process for each recipe.

I am a Dutch born Dutch-Indonesian. My mother, my Oma, and my Opu all cooked old school Indo food. I had to make perfect rice by the time I was seven years old. My sons are first generation born Dutch Indo/ German here in the United States. My youngest son graduated from the Cordon Bleu and is a chef in New Orleans. He dreams of opening his own Indo/Thai fusion restaurant. If you’re an Indo or novice who needs a refresher/or lessons on various recipes this is the book for you! Both of my sons love and cook Indo.

Informative stories and very helpful for those I gifted with two books. I kept one, although now at almost 90 I have kind of concocted my Indo dishes my own way...... met kira kira.... je weet wel.