Now that the semester is almost over, are you in need of a quick way to alternatively assess student reading? If so, try book bentos!
After researching information about the Liebig chromolithographs, origins of bouillon, Marmite, Oxo and Campbell's soups, I became curious about the company town of Fray Bentos, in Uruguay. Apparently, it's pronounced Fry Bentos. Huh. How the old factory looks now, as an industrial museum. Old, rusted company cars, seen on the way into Fray Bentos. More old company cars seen on the way into Fray Bentos The old office in the Fray Bentos plant, as it was on the day it closed down. From elbetobm's Flickr page LOST CONNECTIONS...OLD CONVERSATIONS...WHERE HAVE THEY ALL GONE?...FRIGORIFICO ANGLO....FRAY BENTOS...URUGUAY Frigorífico Anglo del Uruguay From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Frigorífico Anglo del Uruguay was a meatpacking plant located at Fray Bentos, Uruguay, on the Uruguay River bank. In 1924, the Vestey group purchases the old installations of Liebig Extract of Meat Company and the production goes on under a new name. During its peak period, El Anglo had 5,000 workers whose ranks included English, Belgians, Russians, Spanish and Italians. It finally closed in 1979 after Europe and the United States had cut back their purchases from Latin America. Small brick houses with thick walls running along the river's edge in Fray Bentos form the "Barrio Anglo," a city-within-a-city where meatpacking workers lived that featured a hospital, a school, a social club and a football squad. Once I started looking into the history of Fray Bentos, I was drawn into its story. I felt very much like the author of the blog page below. Fascinated by what once was. Once the world's largest refrigerator. Taken from this excellent blog page at Survival for tribal peoples Short extract from Lost Cowboys: From Patagonia to the Alamo by Hank Wangford, 1996. Click on the book to purchase. In this extract the author and his fellow traveller, Joe Tambien arrive in Fray Bentos to be given a tour of the meat processing plant, El Anglo, by Eduardo Irigoyen. We had arrived in Fray Bentos. The Intendencia, the Town Hall, is on Fray Bentos' small town plaza. In the centre is a filigree iron bandstand like the one in Kensington Gardens. We go in and find Eduardo Irigoyen who is to take us to the plant. Eduardo has jet-black hair and a nearly trimmed beard vaguely of the French student type: He is wearing a white short-sleeved shirt under a blue V-neck pullover. Behind his glasses his dark eyes get very inter when he talks in a soft but precise voice about Fray Bentos and the Anglo Plant. He loves the Anglo plant and all its gory history and I want to hear every word. We drive down past old tree-lined terraces of low workers houses, part of the original Anglo workers' ghetto round the plant. We turn a corner, come out of the trees and suddenly we are on the edge of a wide river and underneath a gigantic building. We walk out on to a rickety jetty and right there on the shore is a towering concrete monolith of a building, a hangar, a massive, brutish stone box sticking right out into the bright-blue Uruguayan sky beside the wide, slow-flowing, yellow-ochre river. Across the top of this huge block, in gigantic faded black letters roaring across the Río Uruguay, the beautiful River of Birds, is `ANGLO'. This monstrous box is the cold-storage building for the plant, the end of this particular line for carcases waiting to be shipped directly from the shores of this muddy yellow river across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. It needed to be this big. The Anglo plant was the biggest meat-processing plant in the world. "It’s gargantuan fridge used to hold enough meat to feed the whole of Britain and free Europe during the Second World War. I wanted to know more. ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------- And more... What the heck is corned beef anyway? Corned beef refers to a particular style of brine-cured beef. The "corn" in corned beef refers to the "corns" or grains of coarse salts used to cure it. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the usage of corn, meaning "small hard particle, a grain, as of sand or salt." Potassium nitrate(saltpeter) is often added to the brine to help preserve the beef's pink color. The world's biggest paper and pulp mills: One of the biggest paper and pulp mills in the world is situated near fray Bentos in Uruguay. This pulp and paper mill is from the Finnish paper company of Botnia ( second largest producer of paper in the world ). The facility is producing 1 million tonnes of bleached short-fibre eucalyptus pulp per year: In the U.S. and Canada, corned beef typically comes in two forms, a cut of beef (usually brisket, but sometimes round or silverside) cured or pickled in a seasoned brine, and canned (pre-cooked). In the United States, corned beef is often purchased ready to eat in delicatessens. It is the key ingredient in the famous grilled Reuben sandwich, consisting of corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, andThousand Island or Russian dressing on rye bread. Corned beef hash is commonly served with eggs for breakfast. Smoking corned beef, typically with a generally similar spice mix, produces the cold cut known as pastrami. ----------------------------------------- The extraordinary Anglo Mural and its meanings at the RiosCichero Mural blog, which depicts elements of the life and times of the Anglo company at Fray Bentos. After reading that I need to post this. How to best dry your hands using paper towels. It's surprisingly useful. Fray Bentos then And now
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During my most recent trip back to Japan, I had a chance to do some proper train travelling, indulging in several ekiben or station bentos along the way. Here's a brief report, plus what you need to know if you try your own train and ekiben trip.
Angry Birds Bento (in an Easy Lunchbox System) (In upper, smaller section) Angry Birds Graham Crackers, Hard Boiled 'White Bird' Egg. (In larger section) Babybel 'Red Bird' Cheese, Sunbutter Sandwiches (made using Angry Bird cookie press), Cucumber 'Green Pig', Meatballs. As you know, I love a simple bento. It fits my approach to food and it is easier and more timely for me in the mornings to do easy lunches. But, I have to admit, I oooh and ahhhh over the incredibly intricate and gorgeous bentos I see on Instagram and Pinterest. My jaw drops when I see the hand-carved
Sunbutter and Jelly Sandwich with cheese details; Cheese Cubes; Pistachios; Grapes. (stored in an Easy Lunchbox System, with a Lunchbox Love Note. Halloween decor and silicone divider cups from All Things For Sale) FINALLY ... that's what I think each year when 'Halloween Week' arrives. Finally we are at the end.... no more halloween themed lunches pushing the boundaries of my creativity. One month's reprieve before the month of Christmas lunches begin. Finally -- my brain gets a break. Sunbutter and Jelly Sandwich with String-Cheese burial linen and Wilton Candy Eyes; Pistachios; Triscuits; Homemade Ranch Dip (in the small yellow container); Rainbow Carrots;
Da hatte sich doch ein Bento-Foto versteckt ... aber erwischt. Ein für uns typischer Reiseproviant, eine Brotzeit im Doppelpack. Wenn ich die zusammenpacke, freu ich mich immer schon aufs Essen ;-) Es ist eigentlich nichts Aufregendes drin – die Vielfalt macht's und die Präsentation. In jeder Box: 3 Scheiben Kürbiskernbrot mit Salat, Wurst, Käse Die…
