Great to hear from you. I am actually from the UK originally (Hampshire) but fell in love with your home country and now can’t imagine living anywhere else. Its looking really beautiful at the moment as we had some good rains over January (after a particularly dry and hot December).

Zachary – I’m afraid that the word has spread about Namibia’s fantastic biltong / droewors and the States are under strict instructions to confiscate such contriband for fear of causing a countrywide outcry at the substandard produce they have previously been selling to Americans!
Have you ever tried making your own?

I hear your pain, but please, please send me some Droewors!!!!

By far and away the best Biltong and Droewors is from Namibia. Being back in the States after 4 years in South Africa, I absolutely miss the dried meat. Our Beef Jerky here is nothing compared to the Biltong and Droewors.

For any meat lover out there, I state again that Namibia has far and away the best “meat treats” in the world!!!

I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially as I’m a meateater and my partner vegetarian. It brought back many a travel memory of me enjoying two meat dishes and she the small amount of veggies on the side.

On a recent trip to visit relatives in Croatia, despite the long conversations we had of my partner being vegetarian, during one family dinner my aunty added some pork to my partners meal as she didn’t consider it meat, and when my partner discovered a chicken leg at the bottom of her soup during another dinner my uncle explained it was “only baby chicken so not quite meat yet”. Seems vegetarians can still be misunderstood in many parts of the globe.

Cheers,
Stefan

Also enjoyed some of your own posts on Braai4Heritage.

For the vegans, Namibia does have a few specialities. First there are the huge Omajowa mushrooms that grow on termite hills after the rains. Even more delicious are Kalahari truffles. However they are very seasonal and only occur with good rains in a small region of Namibia.

I did see that there was a discussion on veggie wors and that we are in agreement that it can’t be termed boerewors unless it has 90% meat. So really it should be “may the voerie be with you”…nah…just doesn’t have the same ring to it!

Can’t wait for winter to end and braai season to start again. Only a month or so to go.

Great post! It seems like vegans are a rare and misunderstood breed in Nam.

Yes, our beloved Braai Arch did utter those words (with a perfectly braaid T-bone in hand and that infectious laugh), but he did immediately follow it up by saying they should eat braaid mielies. A number of vegetarians participated in Braai Day on 24 September last year and we look forward to more doing so this year.

May the (veggie) wors be with you!

Woodtjopper (Braai4Heritage)