[Sca-cooks] Dutch Pancakes

Johnna Holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Tue May 8 09:52:42 PDT 2007


There are a few other artists and artworks that might be mentioned.
Adriaen Brouwer, **1605 - 1638, Pancake Baker
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/102487.html

Jan Steen also did one titled The Old Pancake Seller
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/pharos/collection_pages/northern_pages/76/PIC_SE-76.html

There's also* *Rembrandt's sketch titled The Pancake Woman.
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/r/rembran/graphics/etching/pancake.html 


There's one of the merchant ones titled The Pancake Seller.
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische  It appears online in a small image at
http://home.planet.nl/~demoo019/website_janny_5.html 

I should mention that
Janny de Moor did an article on pancakes in 2002: /
The Flattest Meal: Pancakes in the Dutch Lowlands /

It can be found in: H. Walker (ed.), /The Meal: Proceedings of the 
Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2001/, Prospect books: Totnes 2002, 
67-80. ISBN 1 903018 24 2

Johnnae


> Matters of Taste. Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch 
> Art and Life
> contains two paintings that deal directly with the topic:
>  Jan Steen's Pancake Woman and Egbert van der Poel's A Pancake Woman.
> They are also featured in Bloemaert's A Couple in the Kitchen Interior.
> Rose produces 3 different versions of pancakes in the recipe book that 
> goes along
> with the exhibit catalog and notes the sources in the catalog.
>
> Johnnae
>   
>




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