Promoting pig farming is a path highly suitable for East Africa, and Ernst plans to make pork one of the main at consumptions in East Africa’s future.
As for beef and lamb, East African ranching faces higher risks compared to other countries. In other nations like the United States, Argentina, Europe, and Asia, most ranches are in mid-to-high latitudes with relatively mild climates, notably the 40 to 50 degrees north and south latitudes, known as the "Golden Prairie Belt."
African grasslands, however, span along the equator, forming unique sparse savannahs. The primary challenge for East African ranching is pest and disease, with the tsetse fly being a significant issue. The only way to handle the tsetse fly is through manual care and maintenance.
Tsetse flies are mainly found in humid rainforests, river valleys, and similar environnts. This is why East African ranches are established in northern Kenya and the Highland Province, which are areas with scarce rainfall and dry climates. The most suitable region for large ranches in Africa is actually South Africa, due to its high latitude.
Of course, there’s no need to overly fear the tsetse fly. It’s not unique to Africa; it also exists in the Middle East and North Africa. However, Arabs seem to suffer less from its harm compared to Africans, and this relates to sanitary conditions. Many natives don’t bother to shoo away flies that crawl on them, let alone care for livestock.
However, due to the unique nature of African tropical savannahs, they are indeed not conducive to cattle and sheep farming. It’s not a matter of quantity but rather quality. For instance, people would prefer to purchase high-quality beef, and on the international market, beef from North and South Arica and Europe is certainly more competitive.
The Western dominance in the discourse of the previous world gives a misconception that Westerners drink wine with steak every day and Aricans eat fried chicken burgers every day.
This is a misleading notion from the dia. For instance, Westerners also eat pork chops, but nobody from the Far East advertises it, possibly due to undesirable flavors.
In the previous world, Aricans primarily consud chicken, ranking first in at consumption, but Arican capitalists also raised pigs. To enhance lean at percentages, they added so harmful substances. However, Aricans rarely ate pork themselves; it was mainly for export.
Currently, pork and lamb remain the top at choices for European commoners. This persists even into the 21st century, whereas North and South Arica differ due to the developed livestock industry.
Why has beef consumption in Europe gradually replaced pork, and steak almost beco a representative food of high-end Western life?
The main reason is the limited ways Europeans process pork. Firstly, there’s a strong odor in non-castrated pork.
Secondly, the thods of preparing pork are too monotonous. In Ernst’s view, German sausages, bacon, smoked at, and ham make Germany the top consur of pork in Europe because they transform pork into a delicious treat.
German sausages are world-renowned, and Germans love sausages. There are more than a hundred ways to prepare them, mainly divided into grilled sausages, boiled sausages, and raw sausages. Nuremberg sausages, curry sausages, smoked black beer sausages, Vienna sausages, and blood sausages are all sausage variations created by Germans.
Introducing Far East-style sausage into this lineup would be delightful. Ernst was particularly fond of Sichuan-style sausages in his previous life, mainly due to his penchant for spicy flavors. For those who dislike spicy foods, sweet-tasting Cantonese sausages are worth trying.
Regarding pork preparations, the Far East boasts another killer tactic: "braised" products, a Far Eastern specialty.
Braised products are excellent for making military food cans. Ernst’s food factory had experience in this area. During the Italo-Austrian war, the Vienna food factory launched two flavors: braised beef and braised pork, both well-received on the front lines. However, due to low production, they later beca exclusive to Austrian officers.
These military food cans, in terms of taste, surpass British salted beef cans, but they have a shelf life of only one year. Coupled with high production costs, this limits their output.
The primary reason is that the military cannot rely solely on canned goods for sustenance. Most military units still have to cook their als, using canned goods only in ergencies.
Military food, in this era, depends entirely on the cook’s skills, often resulting in appalling food conditions.
Military food cans, especially those produced by Heixinggen, easily captivate Austrian soldiers’ taste buds.
Currently, the Vienna food factory and Berlin food factory are intensifying their efforts to develop (plagiarizing Far East braised products) new products. For Heixinggen’s food enterprises, plagiarism is nearly a routine practice.
As a mber of the gastronomically inclined nation in a previous life, would Ernst honestly invest in developing delicacies? Most of Heixinggen’s research funds are funneled into "preserving" food.
As for flavors, they can simply copy what’s already available, as there are plenty of things Europeans have never seen.
Besides braised products, there is East Africa’s diversity in cooking thods. European households primarily focus on pan-frying and grilling pork, but East Africa is different, offering pan-frying, grilling, deep-frying, steaming, and boiling. Should conditions allow, East African foodies have already set these up.
East Africa’s immigrants are quite diverse, but true gourmands are mainly immigrants from the Far East and Italy, who have high culinary expectations and the abundance of East African produce allows them to experint.
Among these, deep-frying is distinctly East African. Edible oils in East Africa are primarily of plant origin, with a wide range of choices. Sesa oil is of the highest quality, as Africa is among the best places for sesa cultivation with imnse advantages. Butter is entirely absent or never appeared in East Africa.
East Africa mainly raises beef cattle, with no focus on milk production. Lacking raw materials, natural butter production is low. Only in pasture areas might so immigrants make small amounts of homade butter.
Only the First Town has a herd of Dutch dairy cows, serving as exclusive supplies for the First Town, but it’s not suitable for widespread promotion. As the capital, the First Town enjoys countless privileges.
In the past, there was talk of the world’s top three cuisines: Chinese Cuisine, French cuisine, and Turkish cuisine. Not considering taste and just based on influence, one should also consider British-Indian curry masala, Japanese cuisine, and Arican fast food.
East Africa has Chinese Cuisine, mainly Lu Cuisine. As for European cuisines, East Africa focuses on Italian dishes.
However, without any promotion, East African cuisine fails to form a system. Ernst is eager to see an East African cuisine integrating the advantages of various global cuisines.
Using the four major Chinese cuisines as the foundation, incorporating German culinary features, and finally rging the best parts of world cuisines.
East Africa has natural advantages, aside from the scarcity of frigid-zone ingredients, most can be replicated. But it seems the frigid zone lacks culinary delicacies – fernted puffins? Surströmming?
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