Labor Day Party

A party for Labor Day.
p.s. The ham is from Ganda Company, Belgium.

There once was a time when our country was covered in woods with many different varieties of trees. In these enormous forests grew roots, acorns, chestnuts and beechnuts: the ideal fodder for pigs who roamed the forests in herds. The ancient Belgians domesticated these pigs and made the most splendid dried and salted hams, an art that impressed the Romans so much that soon a great many dried and salted hams found their way to Rome.

There are still some Belgians who have kept the art alive. Ganda Ham is testimony to this. It is prepared by Corma Vleeswaren ltd.., the first Belgian meat company to obtain ISO 9002 quality certification. The name Ganda is the old Celtic name for the city of Ghent and means a confluence of rivers in the shape of a hand. The rivers are the Lys, Lieve and Scheldt.

Ganda is also the harmonic balance between Man and Nature in the flat, Flemish landscape between these rivers, whose dried and salted ham has gastronomic fame.