Practical Life in Caux

Two ladies in the interpretation booth in Caux

Digna Hintzen, Nicole Maunoir in translation cabin in Caux

Baking kitchen: Hildi Zeller, Baking kitchen…

Baking kitchen chief showing children how to make plaited bread

1985

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Kitchen: Pioneer Trudi Trüssel

Trudi Trüssel in the Caux kitchen, probably in 1947

Portret foto

Baking kitchen: Inauguration of the new baking…

Jan Franzon

1969

Jenny-Anne presenting a gift to the architect of the new baking kitchen Jenny-Anne Maeder-Duckert & Charles Rudolph

Kitchen: Three head chefs, Alison Wetterfors,…

Three volunteer head cooks in the Caux kitchen. They would all leave their other activities and spend the summer in Caux to cook shifts together with conference participants

1975

Kitchen: Volunteers frying chicken

1977

Volunteers frying chicken for conference of several hundreds of participants

Kitchen: Rob Corcoran (Scotland) and Nombulelo…

Kitchen: Preparing eggs for a curry?

Barbara Thornhill (USA), Mrs Sinha (India) Mrs Ma-Nu (Burma) Nelun Sena (Ceylon)

Kitchen: Swiss watch makers in the Caux kitchen

Watchmakers from ETA factory, Grenchen, Switzerland: Hans Michel, Erwin Schenker, Frij Schole

Kitchen: Children enjoying making ice cream

Lars Rengfelt

1973

Children loving making ice cream for several hundreds of guests.

Activity photo, Groepsfoto

Kitchen: Ladies from 5 nations, in their national…

Elisabeth Caulfeild (Switzerland) Riek de Boer (The Netherlands) 1 unknown lady, Evelyn Puig (Fils)? Austria, Kate Cross (Canada), Trudi Trüssel (Switzerland)

Kitchen: French couple Hédiard enjoying cooking

Lars Rengfelt

1975

French couple from Nantes were regular visitors in Caux

Activity photo, Groepsfoto

Kitchen: Official Chinese delegation

1992

Official Chinese delegation take part in preparing a meal during their stay in Caux.

Kitchen: Cookshift preparing for the meal

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1976

Kitchen: Men of 3 generations work in the kitchen

1978

Left: Werner Haller, right: Thomas Braeckle

Kitchen: Head Cook Alison giving explanations in…

1975

Head Cook Alison Wetterfors (Hutchison) explains in a meeting, together with her team,. what joining a cook shift will involve!

Kitchen: Two British journalists

1974

British journalists Geoffrey Lean and Stan Hazel active in the kitchen.

Kitchen before transformation

1963

The kitchen was transformed in 1964 and 1966. The economat was added where the big window appears.

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Interpretation: Maria Wolf

2019

Maria Wolf

Interpretation: technical supervision