Recurring tension and outright warfare between the Netherlands and Britain in the seventeenth century did not prevent Dutch ships from transporting desirable goods from their far-flung trading outposts to the expanding North American colonies. An examination of material culture and primary sources related to the consumption of sugar and other imported foodstuffs can illustrate concepts of cultural identity present among Dutch and British colonists, in that ongoing trade relationships between the Netherlands and Britain, legal and illegal, allowed their respective colonial populations to maintain traditional foodways or to form new ones as they adapted to their surroundings. Utilizing archaeological data recovered from sites in what is now the northeastern United States, we explore the flow of goods, particularly Caribbean sugar, from Dutch merchants in New Netherland and early New York into the surrounding colonies.