
De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester
A highlight of each of these treks is a visit to De Pasteibakkerij, a tiny charcuterie shop in Amsterdam Zuid. It’s run by Diny Schouten, and Floris Brester, two writers who long ago gave up pad and pen for butcher’s knives and cutting boards.

De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester
Walking into De Pasteibakkerij is like visiting your favored Aunt Margie’s kitchen. There are baskets of farm eggs, freshly baked loaves of bread, jars of marmalade, packages of butter, shelves filled with cookbooks, and a cold case filled to bursting with rilletes, pates, bowls of fresh radishes, packets of boudin, blood sausage, and a host of more exotic meats.
Big hanging bellies of pork bacon complete the picture.

De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester
Pork is sourced from Boerderij de Lindenhoff in Baambrugge, a short journey of less than 10 miles. If you prefer your meat local then this is the next best thing to rearing pigs in the courtyard behind your apartment off Reguliersdwarsstraat

De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester
Ethical hog farming is taking place across the whole of the Netherlands.

De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester

De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester
If poultry holds more appeal to you than pork De Pasteibakkerij sources from Pieter van Meel’s sons; Thomas, Wijnand and Maurits who took his company over upon his untimely passing in 2012. There is none finer in Noord Holland.

De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester

De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester

De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester
Hoendiepstraat 2
1079 LT Amsterdam
M 06 5347 5512 (Diny Schouten)
M 06 8112 0032 (Floris Brester)

De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester

De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester
Perhaps there are some budding charcutieres living in the Netherlands who can use the above resource to good effect?

De Pasteibakkerij is the charcuterie workshop of Diny Schouten and Floris Brester
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