Monday, 13 June, the Dutch culinary historian and bibliographer Joop Witteveen died in Amsterdam at the age of 88. Joop Witteveen published the Bibliotheca Gastronomica (1998), the bibliography of Dutch and Flemisch Gastronomy. In 2005 he joined his huge reference library of cookbooks and other works on gastronomic history with the library of the foodwriter Johannes van Dam in the Foundation Gastronomic Library Amsterdam. Both collectors decided to bequeathe their collection to the University of Amsterdam. The joined library with more than 60,000 publications on the history of gastronomy is part of the Special Collections of the UvA.
