This is a general history and tour of the Green County butcher shops making Landjaeger. Mr. Brookstein is not a historian, or a travel writer, so his writing is genuine and from the heart. He is a food lover. He has been a part of some small breweries in Colorado, and so has some notion of what it takes to run a small business, and the culture of Germany and Switzerland, where both beer and landjaegers come from.
He tells of the word ‘landjaeger,’ where it comes from and speculates on what it would mean in English, mostly land ranger, warden or hunter. He writes of how landjaegers are made, and of the general impression of the ingredients. He keeps telling that the rules and ingredients he writes of are general because the specific shops have a vested interest in keeping their recipes to themselves.
In the next section he visits and interviews the various butcher shops and proprietors making the landjaegers. Asking about how they process the meat into the product, how long it takes, how big a part of the business it is, etc.
To my mind, it is so much ‘over the top’ trivia. I eat one and, yeah, it is good, but all the flavors they talk of are just part of the whole and I can not sparse any one thing from it. It was enjoyable to read.
Published by David Brockert
Joe was born in xxxx, Arizona on xxxx xx 1955 to David Joseph and Alta Mary Brockert. He joined xxxxxx. His early life was spent in various houses in Globe, Miami, Claypool and Superior, Arizona. He remembered starting school in second grade in Superior and went there until he finished seventh grade.
They made a move to the Midwest that summer. His parents tried to get work in Minnesota that summer, to no avail, came to Wisconsin and finally found something. Joe went to eight grade in Evansville, Wisconsin. He went to Holy Name Seminary in Madison, Wisconsin for his Junior year of high school. Joe did not make the grade (literally & figuratively) at the seminary, so he went back to graduate from Evansville. He started college at Edgewood in Madison, but without a focus , he did not get very far towards a degree. He did get an Associate of Arts degree from Madison Area Technical College in 1978 for Accounting just to prove he could get a degree of some sort. He never did use it to any extent.
Joe worked as a paperboy in Superior and, some, in Evansville. He did some work study jobs in college, but really started to work at the donut shop on Regent Street, Donuts Unlimited. He worked there, off and on, for many years. He spent a summer at Edgewood Summer Theatre near Baraboo, tried to find a job doing bookkeeping after graduation but fell back to working seasonal at Blaney Farms (seed corn). He worked at the donut shop until 1993. He left to work at Triggs Bakery, Quarra Stone and Colonial Bakery. He has worked at Colonial Bakery since 1994.
Joe met the love of his life in a coffee shop near MATC, where they attended classes and they never really left the coffee shop. Joe was married on 17 May 1980 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Joe lived a contented, relaxed life. He did not do much but learn, work, raise a daughter and support his family. He did not attract a lot of attention. He did learn to live for the day. He felt that the key to happiness was to remember to stop and smell the roses, or to look at the most beautiful sight he had ever seen, Mary, or to just go for a walks with her. He was humble enough to know that his writing would be of interest to very few, mostly those related to him, obviously, so he never tried too hard to get his rambling thoughts recorded.
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