Executive Chef Ed Sayomac
Executive Chef Eduardo Sayomac is truly a Holland America Line product! Hailing from the beautiful islands of the Philippines, Ed joined Holland America Line in 1981 as a General Purpose Assistant Pantry. GPA Pantries work in all areas of the kitchen, from serving food in the Lido, to preparing room service short orders to cutting fruit and serving ice cream. Having worked his way up, sailing on every single DAM ship in the fleet and learning all the different parts of the galley, Ed’s favorite part of the job to this day is to watch the smile he can bring our guests each time he creates something special that they’ve never seen or tasted before. About 20 years ago, an Executive Chef, recognizing Ed’s culinary talents said, ‘One day you will sit in this chair.’ Ed laughed when he heard that at that time, but the prodigious statement came true when he accepted the position of Executive Chef onboard the old Westerdam in 2000 - much to the good fortune of every guest who enjoys the fruits (not to mention the vegetables and entrées) of his gifted labor in our dining rooms every evening. He is also a member of an elite group of chefs from around the world, the prestigious Chaîne de Rotisseurs. Ed met his wife Helen, a former shop attendant, while sailing the seas for Holland America Line. Ed, Helen and their 15-year-old son, Aaron Edward, reside in their family home in Leicester, England. Ed’s hobbies include cooking and soccer, although he does not practice the two at the same time, he hastens to add.
explorer david livingston
David Livingstone, 1813 – 1873, was a Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa and the first European to cross the African continent. From 1841 to 1852, while a medical missionary for the London Missionary Society in what is now Botswana, he crossed the Kalahari desert and reached Lake Ngami in 1849. He discovered the Zambezi River in 1851. Hoping to abolish the slave trade by opening Africa to Christian commerce and missionary stations, he traveled to Luanda on the west coast in 1853. Following the Zambezi River, he discovered and named Victoria Falls in 1855 and reached the east coast at Quelimane, Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique), in 1856. His Missionary Travels of 1857 in South Africa is an account of that journey. Appointed British consul at Quelimane, he was given command of an expedition (1857 – 1863) to explore the Zambezi region. In 1866 he returned to Africa to seek the source of the Nile. He discovered lakes Mweru and Bangweula and in 1871 reached the Lualaba tributary of the Congo River. Sickness compelled his return to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, where the journalist H. M. Stanley found him in 1871. Unable to persuade Livingstone to leave, Stanley joined him on a journey from 1871 – 1872 to the north end of Lake Tanganyika. In 1873 he died in the village of Chief Chitambo.
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