Hot Dutch Treat

Hot Dutch TreatThe surprising thing about rijsttafel isn't the prodigal number of dishes mustered for a single party--in a restaurant, they'll range from 20 to 50--but the fact that, as we shall see, almost all of them seem to have been specifically designed for a bachelor's book of entertaining. Dutch colonialists in Indonesia gave the feast their Dutch name rijsttafel or rice table; a huge mound of rice was the fluffy white stage on which the charcoal-broiled satés, the pork balls, the ducklin...