Cooking on a Clay Island

In this colourful cookbook, chef Michka Chel discovers the Hoeksche Waard.

Just south of Rotterdam lies a special island: the Hoeksche Waard. An island where about half of the surface is used by farmers who mainly engage in arable farming. The soil consists of a thick layer of clay, which provides more valuable nutrients than other soil types. This can be tasted in the unique flavour of the products that grow in or on the clay.

Cooking on an island of clay is a personal cooking, reading, and photo book in which chef Michka Chel and photographer Harm van den Broek take you on a journey of discovery through the Hoeksche Waard.

Watch, cook, and read along behind the scenes of the proud farmers and be inspired at home by more than 50 recipes in which vegetables, mainly in season all year round, play the leading role. This cookbook is not just an ordinary cookbook. It is a quest for the origin of real food and a tribute to the Hoeksche Waard. From advocaat to sauerkraut and from yoghurt to wild goose: we hope that 'Cooking on an island of clay' may be an inspiration, not only for residents of the Hoeksche Waard but also for all other Dutch people!