Top 10 Best Dutch Foods in Amsterdam

New Amsterdam Travel Video- We present our Top Ten Dutch foods that you must try when you’re in Amsterdam. In this tasty video, we’ll show you foods that are unique and the most popular in Amsterdam, so you can eat yourself through the city like a local on your next visit. Gessell shows you traditional foods like herring and craft beer; snack foods like Belgian fries, bitterballen and fried bites you can get from a vending machine; and sweet Dutch treats like stroopwafels, pancakes, poffertjes and oliebollen. Eet Smaakelijk!!!

Dutch cuisine (Dutch: Nederlandse keuken) is formed from the cooking traditions and practices of the Netherlands. The country’s cuisine is shaped by its location in the fertile North Sea river delta of the European Plain, giving rise to fishing, farming (for crops and domesticated animals), trading over the sea, its former colonial empire, and the spice trade.

Dutch cuisine is often seen as bland, due to a culture of frugality. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Dutch food became designed to be economical and filling rather than pleasing,[1] with many vegetables and little meat: breakfast and lunch are typically bread with toppings like cheese, while dinner is meat and potatoes, supplemented with seasonal vegetables. The diet contains many dairy products and is relatively high in carbohydrates and fat, reflecting the dietary needs of the laborers. Without many refinements, it is best described as rustic, though many holidays are celebrated with special foods.

During the 20th century, Dutch cuisine and diet changed. Influenced by the eating culture of its colonies (particularly the Dutch East Indies), it became more cosmopolitan and most international cuisines are represented in the major cities.