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Peter G. Rose is a woman. She was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and
educated there as well as in Switzerland. She came to the United States
in the mid-1960s. She has worked as a food writer and contributed a syndicated
column on family food and cooking to the New York-based Gannett newspapers
for more than twenty years. She has written articles for magazines such
as Gourmet and Saveur, as well as for newspapers and magazines
in the Netherlands, and locally for Hudson Valley Magazine and The
Valley Table.
She started her research on the influence of the Dutch on the American
kitchen in the early 1980s and published her first book on the subject,
The Sensible Cook: Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World, at
the end of that decade. It was followed by Foods of the Hudson: A Seasonal
Sampling of the Region's Bounty (1993); Matters of Taste: Food and
Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life with Dr. Donna R. Barnes
(2002) and recently by Food, Drink and Celebrations of the Hudson Valley
Dutch (2009) and Summer Pleasures, Winter Pleasures: a Hudson Valley
Cookbook (2009). She is the 2002 recipient of the Alice P. Kenney Award
for her research and writing on Dutch food history.
As a member of the Speakers in the Humanities program of the New York
Council for the Humanities, she lectures on historic Dutch food ways all
over New York State. She illustrates her talks with paintings of the Dutch
Masters and has spoken at many museums with holdings of such Dutch art all
around America. She lives with her husband, Don, in South Salem, New York,
in the beautiful, historic Hudson Valley. |
