Cooking Pennsylvania Dutch Style

A regional cookery as complex as that of the Pennsylvania Dutch is a language of many changing textures, flavors, and smells. Yet above all else it is a cookery with a sense of place, a cuisine that recognizes the unchanging essence of Bodegeschmack, meaning that our food has in it the taste of the land. Bodegesckmack is what gives great wines their character. It is what gives cheese a nuance of the grass and meadows on which the animals grazed. It comes from the natural soil, soil derived from the rocky earth below it, a product of the intimate connectedness between plant and mineral.