Dutch Resistance Museum - Food in wartime

Food in wartime

Dutch Resistance Museum, Amsterdam (NL), 2016

The Dutch Resistance Museum brings together past and present food trends in the exhibition ‘Food in wartime’.

Healthy eating

Healthy food is in. People want less meat, fat and dairy and more vegetables – in season where possible and, for the true enthusiasts, home-grown. It’s all trendy today, but during the Second World War, people in the Netherlands did it out of necessity.

Celebrity chefs

In the exhibition, visitors encountered five Dutch celebrity chefs. On video, they and curator Karlien Metz prepared dishes using ingredients available during the occupation years. The recipes were included in the exhibition catalogue, which was designed to resemble a hip cookbook.

“For the first time, the exhibition ‘Food in Wartime’ provides a much broader picture of what we ate during the occupation.”

Andere Tijden — 17 October 2016

 

“People ate nettles reluctantly then, but now they’re super-hip.”

Edwin Florès — 15 October 2016

Credits

Client
Dutch Resistance Museum

Content Design
Studio Louter

Spatial Design
Frank Tjepkema

Graphic Design
Studio Louter

Interactive Media Production
Studio Louter

Film Production
Studio Louter
Ben van der Meyden

Audio Production
KlevR sounddesign

Light Design
Rob Looman

Construction
Fiction Factory

Hardware
VHS


Chefs
Pierre Wind
Edwin Florès
Julius Jaspers
Angelique Schmeinck
Bobby Rust