Johanna beijerinck diary of the dead

Introduction to Bacon & the Art of Living

The quest to understand how great bacon is made takes me around the world and through epic adventures. I tell the story by changing the setting from the 2000s to the late 1800s when much of the technology behind bacon curing was unraveled. I weave into the mix beautiful stories of Cape Town and use mostly my family as the other characters besides me and Oscar and Uncle Jeppe from Denmark, a good friend and someone to whom I owe much gratitude! A man who knows bacon! Most other characters have a real basis in history and I describe actual events and personal experiences set in a different historical context.

The cast I use to mould the story into is letters I wrote home during my travels.

Lauren Learns the Nitrogen Cycle

Copenhagen, August 1891

Dear Lauren,

A father’s relationship with his daughter is very special. It’s magical! This is your turn to get a letter, my precious La.  How I miss you guys!  This week I learned an important lesson, that life is about much more than science, technology, and business.

Tribute to Jacobus Combrinck

I got a telegraph on Thursday, 6 August 1891 from David de Villiers Graaff.  He told me the devastating news about the death of Uncle Cornelius Combrinck. (1)  I am immensely saddened.  He was a part of our lives for so long.  I practically grew up in his home.  He and your grandfather were friends since before I was born. I can almost not imagine going forward without him.  The knowledge of his passing left a gap in my heart.  When I read David’s message, I took a long walk and cried much.

In my mind, I see him with the two of you on his lap when you were still very small. When we visited him in his Woodstock home (2) he would put you on his knee and you would “ride horsie”.  I don’t know if you will remember this.  You were so small!

You loved going there and he loved having us over.  The large apricot trees in his back garden!  You and Tristan enjoye

For Chris Larabee and Buck Wilmington, trips into town had become anything but routine since the orphan train had brought two small boys into their lives, and this particular trip was more significant than usual. The following Monday would be the first Monday in September, which meant school for the boys.

JD was bursting with excitement - school was a new experience for him. Vin was less enthusiastic. From what little he could get Vin to say on the subject, Chris suspected that Vin had been to school at the orphanage, and had not found it a happy experience. He wished he could promise the little boy that things would be different here, but he hadn't even met Miss Myrtle Withers, the newly-arrived school teacher, or seen the inside of the town's small one-room school. He'd left it up to Buck to take care of that and enroll the boys, mostly because Buck had found it a convenient excuse to meet Miss Withers, whom he had found to be frustratingly immune to the Wilmington charm.

As it turned out, there was no one at the school when they stopped to have a look. Chris and Buck had expected that Miss Withers might be there, making things ready for the children, and they found ample evidence that she had been - desks were arranged in neat rows, the chalkboard was clean and the floor swept, cards with the letters of the alphabet had been tacked to the walls, and the names of the town's children had been written in chalk on the wall above the coat hooks at the back of the room.

"LOOK!" JD said excitedly. "Here's my name!" He pointed to the coat hook with "John Dunne" written above it. "And here's yours, Vin!"

Vin studied the name "Vincent Tanner" with a frown. Chris was pretty sure that the boy had to take JD's word for it that the writing was his name.

A month or so after the boys had come to live with them, Buck and Chris had discovered that JD already knew how to read, even though he was only five. He said his mama had taught him how. Buck had mentioned this t

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