[Sca-cooks] Dutch Art of Food and Drink

[johnna holloway]

Word has arrived via Food History News that there is going
to be a major exhibit of artworks and tableware celebrating
Dutch food and drink at the Albany Institute of History and Art.

Entitled: MATTERS OF TASTE:
Food and Drink in 17th Century Dutch Art and Life
September 20 – December 8, 2002;
 Guest curators include Peter
Rose, who brought us The Sensible Cook. Dutch Foodways in the
Old and the New World. To feature still lifes
 and tavern scenes, market scenes, kitchen scenes and
depictions of festive occasions by more
than 30 artists such as Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Adiaen can
 Ostade, Jan Davidsz. De Heem, Pieter Claesz., and William
Claesz.
  The exhibition will be augmented by a selection
of cooking utensils, silver, glass, pewter, and ceramic
 tableware, along with Dutch and colonial  American
 printed and hand-written recipe books passed down
 by Dutch-American families living in the Hudson Valley.
See http://www.albanyinstitute.org/exhibits/upcoming.htm#dutch

Syracuse University Press will publish the book to accompany the
exhibit. See http://sumweb.syr.edu/su_press/
Copublished with the Albany Institute of History and Art
Matters of Taste Available in September
Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century
Dutch Art and Life
Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose
Essays by Charles T. Gehring and Nancy Barnes
Paper $49.95 0-8156-0747-4
8 x 10, 272 pages, 61 color photographs

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis