Dutch Touches: Recipes & Traditions

by Dorothy Crum

Book Overview

NEW combined, revised and expanded edition of Delightfully Dutch and Dutch Treats. Short histories of Holland and Dutch immigration and bios of famous Dutch-Americans, essays on Dutch art, tulips,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572160241
• ISBN13: 9781572160248
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Penfield Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Dutch Touches - Geat 2 books in one

It's a marvelous combination of 2 earlier books. The Termite price was reasonable; other prices for the same book were outrageou. The book in excellent shape arrived just after Christmas.

Recipes and Traditions

Dutch Touches expands Penfield's original edition, Delightfully Dutch, to include articles by Marvin Hiemstra about growing up Dutch in Pella, Iowa, and his essay on how to visit the Netherlands. Writer Heimstra was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry.Among other new touches is writer Margaret Kleis of Holland, Michigan, an immigrant after World War II. She tells of her family in Holland, and their participation in the underground sheltering Jewish refugees and downed American pilots.Favorite articles by Carol Van Klompenburg who authored the original book, Delightfully Dutch and Dutch Treats, are included.All recipes from both original books are found in Dutch Touches.Cover photographs in full color show tulips at the Scholte gardens in Pella, Iowa, on the front cover, and the dancers of Holland, Michigan, on the back cover.