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The salt of the earth | Bacon & the art of living
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Bacon and the art of living. The salt of the earth. Dear Tristan and Lauren,. It is autumn. It mirrors my mood as I am writing to you today. As much as I am excited every Monday morning about what is on the menu that week, I am also frustrated because I know that I must get done here so that I can get home. The value in knowledge is not in the knowing, but in the doing. Every day is spent on solving a giant mathematical equation. Lithograph of Livingstone and his party going down the Zambesi rapids.
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Ice Cold bacon | Bacon & the art of living
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Bacon and the art of living. The project we have undertaken has turned out to be quite a venture. I am excited to learn about the premises you are looking at in Kraaifontein (1). In the Slaughter House by Lovis Corinth. 1893. My friend, it is interesting how things work out. The reason why we decided that I should be in Denmark is because we met a Danish spice trader in a pub in Johannesburg. I am here purely at his recommendation and because he put us in touch with Andreas. (2). When you make butter, sk...
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Bacon for Africa | Bacon & the art of living
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Bacon and the art of living. 8220;Bacon, that magical delicacy! Cured pork meat, mostly smoked, with a reddish, pinkish colour and a distinct taste.” I have always loved it. When the trading post was established by the VOC’s Jan van Riebeek in 1652, pork was in short supply. The pigs that came with Van Riebeek, found it hard to adapt. They died within months of landing and piglets did not live longer than a few days. (Heinrich 2010: 31, 32). The good bacon was made in Holland, Germany, Poland, Denmark an...
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London! | Bacon & the art of living
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Bacon and the art of living. River Thames, 1895. I arrived in London in June, 1892. (1) A friend of Andreas, Kevin Picton, met me at at the harbour. Excitement about being in London flooded my mind. Romantic images from my mental world as a child, growing up in Cape Town now takes on real-life shape right in front of my eyes. Over the next few months, my education in Bacon curing and in living life took on an entirely new dynamic! The revelations through these letters are explosive and offer a unique and...
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The salt of the sea | Bacon & the art of living
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Bacon and the art of living. The salt of the sea. My letters have tuned into a re-counting of everything that I am learning about the curing of bacon from Jeppe, Andrea, Andreas’s father, Martin Sauer and many others. I still remember when David Graaff, the left Cape Town in the mid 1880’s for an long trip to Great Britain and America to learn more about the meat trade. It was the talk of the town! A few weeks ago I started to learn about the common ingredient, salt! The salt works in the medieval French...
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The mother brine | Bacon & the art of living
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Bacon and the art of living. My next stop is Great Britten. I wish it was Cape Town. I miss the kids and I miss you. Oscar and David’s visit made it more bearable. Still, I miss my family and I miss the Cape of Good Hope (1). Climbing the great and majestic cliffs of Table Mountain. The gale force winds that sweep in from the South East in February and thunders through the many valleys and gorges. I miss the sweet smell of the feinbos and the blooming proteas. It all began in Denmark. The bacon industry ...
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Ice Cold Revolution | Bacon & the art of living
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Bacon and the art of living. New Year’s eve, 1891. Ava wrote to me that David Graaff is making a massive impact as major of Cape Town. David has a vision of Cape Town as a world class location and is planning to bring electricity to our city. The plan is to construct the first power station at the Molteno dam. The dam is named after the country’s first Prime Minister John Molteno. (Wikipedia. Molteno Dam) (1). The Graaff Electrical lighting works at the Molteno Dam. I will bring up with David when we mee...
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The saltpeter letter | Bacon & the art of living
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Bacon and the art of living. When you were small and I used to read you and La. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Before bed-time. We all had our favourate parts. I memorised this one. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it–namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. 8221; (Twain, 1876: 13). It is the reason why I am here in Denmark. What I miss even more is having you here so that we could learn together.
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From Copenhagen with love | Bacon & the art of living
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Bacon and the art of living. From Copenhagen with love. Dear Ava, Copenhagen is an amazing city(1)! You should be by my side and experience it yourself. They harness the wind to generate electricity for their cities. The technological advancement and the speed with which they adapt to new inventions are remarkable (Pedersen 2010: 3). I miss you terribly! During the voyage my mind effortlessly wondered to you, my love! I liked Dave immediately, as much as my dad liked his uncle, Jacobus Combrinck, his bos...
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