by Alet | Mar 29, 2017 | Books, Writing
Our hero was raised on a farm and had little training as a soldier seeing that he was an army cook. Thus, within the first few days of being on the battlefront, he noticed a German plane in hot pursuit of an Allied Kittyhawk and grabbed his gun. Needless to say, his...
by Alet | Dec 6, 2016 | Books, Writing
Like a veritable Indiana Jones, Danie had to be enormously practical and resourceful – as a cook in North African desert field kitchens, in the POW camp kitchens of Benghazi, Sardinia and Italy, as a foraging escapee in the hills of Tuscany, and as a volunteer fighter...
by Alet | Oct 15, 2016 | Books, Writing
Our young hero learning to feed the forces at the Pretoria Police College – peeling a mountain of potatoes, making notes, AND finding time to take the love of his life to the Burgers Park in Pretoria. Coming from a family of 14 children, Danie had a knack with...
by Alet | Aug 15, 2016 | Books, Writing
Die jong konstabel, Danie de Jager, in die kookspan in Windhoek – min wetende dat hy hierdie vaardighede sou toepas in die skeepskombuis onderweg na Alexandrië, in die veldkombuis in die woestyn van Noord-Afrika, in die krygsgevangekampe van Benghazi en Italië...
by Alet | May 10, 2016 | Books, Writing
Die boeiende storie van ‘n boerseun wat tydens die Tweede Wêreldoorlog diens doen as kok: Kleintyd sonder televisie was ‘n groot seën vir my pa se sewe kinders – wanneer die gier hom gepak het en hy begin oorlogstories vertel het, het ons aan sy lippe...
