Sausages have been around for a very long time but the sausage types with which we are so familiar today have been developed and refined by craftsmen over the past 3000 years or more. These same craftsmen have passed on the art of making a good sausage from one generation to the next for thousands of years. The word sausage comes from the Latin word salsus which means salt or salted. The Romans were making sausage using salt as a preservative over 2000 years ago. At that time salt was in great demand and the modern English word "salary" is also derived from the Latin term for wages which...

Autobiography of an Unknown Man traces the author's life from his birth, childhood in England and Namibia, years at boarding school and university, his early successes, family life, two disastrous marriages, the success of his company created and developed in Namibia during the South West African Border War with Angola, the company's move to South Africa and its collapse after President P.W. Botha's 1985 "Rubicon" speech that nearly brought South Africa to its knees. The company's takeover by IGI Ltd., and IGI's decision to abandon the construction industry in 1990 and Chris's decision to...