Dutch Foodways

Where in the world

• Netherlands territory

What is recorded

• Dutch foodways is a set of regional traditions plus the food cultures migration has added. Cheese, herring, stroopwafels and fries describe parts of it and not the whole. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• part of Northern European Foodways documented

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• influenced Dutch Maritime Trade Foodways documented
• migrated to Surinamese Diaspora Foodways documented

  ⚠ Roughly as many people of Surinamese origin live in the Netherlands as in Suriname. The roti shop and the toko are ordinary Dutch institutions.

• originates from Dutch-American Foodways documented
• related to Belgian Foodways documented

  Flanders and the Netherlands share a language and a long border; the kitchens are close and not the same.

• related to Belgian Fries and Friterie Culture documented

  The frituur and its sauces run across the whole Low Countries.

• related to Belgian North Sea Foodways documented

  Most mussels eaten in Belgium come from Zeeland.

• related to Danish Foodways documented

  Dutch farmers were brought to Amager in the 16th century to supply the capital with vegetables and dairy, and the Dutch grain and salt trade ran through the Sound.

• related to Dutch Caribbean Foodways documented

  A political relationship and a documented culinary exchange, not an identity.

• related to Frisian Cheese Foodways documented

  ⚠ Gouda and Edam are Dutch cheeses made in Fryslân too; nagelkaas is the Frisian one.

• related to Frisian Dairy Foodways documented
• related to Frisian Foodways documented

  Fryslân is a Dutch province and the kitchens overlap heavily — which is a relationship, not an identity. Frisian is a separate language, not a Dutch dialect.

• related to Guyanese Rice and Sugar documented

  ⚠ The polders, the kokers and the sea defences that make the coast farmable are Dutch engineering, which is why an English-speaking country has a Dutch landscape.

• related to Surinamese Foodways documented

  Dutch is the official language, the colonial power was the Netherlands, and the diaspora is overwhelmingly Dutch.

• related to Turkish Foodways in the Netherlands documented

  The row lives under Turkish diaspora foodways and relates to Dutch foodways by edge, so there is one page rather than two.

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