Cooking with gas in the Dutch kitchen
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Spending hours in the kitchen cooking from authentic recipes. That is the latest trend among Dutch foodies. Kookwinkel Oldenhof in Hilversum is one of Europe's biggest kitchen shops. It opened its doors nearly a year ago and has been doing a roaring trade ever since.
"Many amateur cooks are now going back to their roots," says Barry Voorhorst, manager of Oldenhof. They've tried French, Italian,Thai and Japanese cookery, and now they're rediscovering their grandmother's recipes. Demand for traditional gadgets - like manual meat mincers and bean slicers - is growing, and the true purists are grinding their own coffee beans again.
For kitchen shops, it means big business. Oldenhof, for instance, specialises in "authentic equipment". And it organizes courses in traditional Dutch cooking.
Gas cookers are also making a comeback. Electric hobs might be easy to use, but cooking with gas is much more fun.
Oldenhof is a big shop by Dutch standards. Its success shows how popular cooking is becoming. Even before the new year started, the International Housewares Association announced that Oldenhof Kookkado had won its prestigious Global Innovator Award 2003 for the Netherlands.
