The Famous Dutch Kitchen Restaurant Cookbook: Family-Style Diner Delights from the Heart of Pennsylvania (Roadfood Cookbook) [Hardcover]

Jane Stern (Author), Michael Stern (Author), Tom Levkulic (Contributor), Jennifer Levkulic (Contributor)

Book Description

Series: Roadfood Cookbook | Publication Date: March 17, 2004

Part diner, part family-style restaurant, the Famous Dutch Kitchen Restaurant in Frackville, Pennsylvania, north of Lancaster County, serves up some of the best food in this popular tourist area visited by more than five million people each year. Feast on turkey pot pie, ham and cabbage casserole, and delicious vegetables. The cornbread is moist, flavorful, and nearly as sweet as cake. And top it all off with shoofly pie or the Famous Dutch Kitchen's signature Atomic Banana Split.

Pennsylvania Dutch Country is a land of rolling farmlands dotted with one-room schoolhouses where you will encounter horse-drawn buggies, beautiful quilts, and industrious "Plain People."

The Famous Dutch Kitchen Restaurant is the seventh restaurant to be chosen by authors Jane and Michael Stern for their Roadfood cookbook series which celebrates the finest regional restaurants in the United States. It includes an 8-page color insert.

Previous Roadfood cookbooks include:

Blue Willow Inn Cookbook-1-55853-991-3
El Charo Cookbook-1-55853-992-1
Durgin Park Cookbook-1-4016-0028-X
Harry Carey's Cookbook-1-4016-0095-6
Louie's Backyard Cookbook-1-4016-0038-7
Carbone's Cookbook-1-4016-0122-7

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The Sterns, authors of Roadfood and other books about America's out-of-the-way, quaint, quirky restaurants, continue their trek across the country with this latest offering. Part traditional chrome and Formica diner, part conventional restaurant (depending on whether you enter from the car park or I-81), the Dutch Kitchen (60 miles northeast of Harrisburg, Pa., in Frackville) offers typical Pennsylvanian cuisine. The restaurant's cooking is bold and filling, consisting of hearty meals to satisfy vigorous appetites and time-honored immigrant dishes. The recipes, which the Sterns gathered from the restaurant's chefs, promote simple, traditional fare with the famous "Dutch" (a possible corruption of "Deutsch," or German) emphasis on the seven sweets and seven sours. Nourishing diner staples like Meatloaf and a beef version of Shepherd's Pie are accompanied by colorful sides like Pickled Eggs, Applesauce Salad and Pennsylvania Dutch Chow-Chow (a relish of assorted pickled vegetables). The authors present the recipes in a plain, no-nonsense manner that assumes a certain knowledge of cooking, as the instructions are sparse almost to the point of paucity. The Sterns also include colorful descriptions of the area and its history, providing a capsule of Americana. This pleasant local cookbook should delight those interested in the German influences on America's culinary history and those with a love for nostalgic heartland favorites.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (March 17, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401601383
• ISBN-13: 978-1401601386
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #982,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dutch Kitchen cookbook, May 20, 2010

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Robert Peloquin (Northampton, Pa.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Famous Dutch Kitchen Restaurant Cookbook: Family-Style Diner Delights from the Heart of Pennsylvania (Roadfood Cookbook) (Hardcover)

This is just a fun book to own. If you like recipes, it obviously will fill that need. Besides the "Cookbook" part of it, the book shares the history of the restaurant itself, and adds a bit of local Pennsylvania history including the coal region of northeastern Pa.
This book makes a great coffee table book as well.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amish Cookin', June 20, 2009

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L. Wilt "sissy" (north east) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Famous Dutch Kitchen Restaurant Cookbook : Family-Style Diner Delights from the Heart of Pennsylvania (Roadfood Cookbook) (Hardcover)

If you like amish dishes this is a great book for you. Full of wonderful recipes and tips. I love it and I'm sure you will too.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite cookbook, May 19, 2009

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Mary Meyers "Mary M." (Bunkerville, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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A great cookbook - plus a nice history of the area. I love this book & have used many of the recipes.