Indo Dutch Kitchen Secrets: Stories and Favorite Family Recipes Hardcover – December 6, 2016

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.

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.

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.

🇨🇼🇳🇱🇸🇷 I am truly grateful for this book. Being a mix of Dutch/ Suriname heritage. This book brought back memories I have forgotten. Until I found this book!! It brought back so many memories of my mom and aunts making these dishes.. i had my mom's cookbook but it went missing.. This is my second copy of this book ( my son took the first one). THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THESE WONDERFUL RECIPES ❣❣

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.

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.

Being of Dutch-Indonesian descent, I had certain expectations of this book. The language was quite dull, almost inadequate in style and diction.The reader has to be an experienced cook to follow the recipes. For example: boil 7 ounces chuck steak in water with a stock cube and a dash of salt. One piece of steak, not cut into chunks or strips? I tablespoon of leek, sliced into rings. Isn't it more common to say one small or medium leek, sliced? Keasberry is assuming that the reader knows only to use the white part of a leak. 1 large (how large?) can kidney/pinto beans, drained and sieved (?) All recipes I've always seen using canned beans will tell you to rinse and drain the beans. A novice following the recipe for Bruine Bonen Soep will not be happy with the finished dish. Neither will the cook garnishing the Nasi Koening with Tempeh Kering (fermented soybean cake). Perhaps Keasberry should have mentioned here what to do with the tempeh (maybe cross reference to Tempeh Goreng on page 165.)I could go on and on about the sloppy and inadequate recipes. I hope I made my point.Buy this book only if you're a collector of cookbooks. I would think twice about using the recipes.

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.

Indos, unite! There is one thing that unites us hands down, and that is delicious food. Jeff Keasberry has struck a gold mine in deciding to write down his family's recipes. Too often the recipes are not written down, but rather 'a pinch of this and a bit of that.' This is how my mom cooks, and this is how it has been passed down. Thankfully there is now a cookbook that captures the unique blend of Dutch and Indonesian cuisine.

I know of no other book of recipes with this particular focus on Dutch and Indo Dutch cooking. The Netherlands is full of fantastic Indonesian restaurants, largely because of the history that the Dutch have in Indonesia. The Dutch have adapted many Indonesian dishes into a slightly different Dutch-ified version. This book was written by a guy whose family emigrated from Indonesia to Holland in the post-war years. His family is a mixture of Dutch and Indonesian heritage.The food showcased here is WONDERFUL!

Hier werden Kindheitserinnerungen wach. Und man kann sie einfach kochend zum Leben wiedererwecken! Extrem empfehlenswert!