Groot Nieuw Volledig Indisch Kookboek
- Year
- 1902
- Era
- 20th century
- Origin
- Dutch East Indies · Southeast Asia
- Language
- Dutch
- Category
- Southeast Asia
Groot Nieuw Volledig Indisch Kookboek is a comprehensive Dutch-language compendium of Indies cookery compiled by J.M.J. Catenius-van der Meijden and first issued in 1902 for the colonial households of the Dutch East Indies. Encompassing rijsttafel dishes, sambals, and European adaptations, the work stands as one of the foundational documents of Indo-Dutch culinary literature, codifying the hybrid kitchen that emerged from sustained Dutch engagement with the Indonesian archipelago.
Cooking from this book
Rijsttafel
Signature dishThe rijsttafel, or rice table, is the lavish colonial Dutch way of serving Indonesian cuisine: a central mound of rice surrounded by a wide array of small savoury dishes, from spiced meats and vegetable side plates to sambals, pickles and crisp accompaniments. Catenius-van der Meijden's encyclopaedic volume is closely tied to this tradition, documenting the breadth of household cookery in the Dutch East Indies and helping to fix the rijsttafel as the emblem of Indo-European dining.
An editorial note on a dish associated with this book, written for The Coquinist. It is not a reproduction of the book's recipe.
