Home Food Gourmet

For thousands of years, people have prepared sausage.  Homer spoke glowingly of sausage in the Odyssey, saying it was a favorite food of the Greeks.  Roman celebrations were considered incomplete without it.  Marco Polo's spice quest (1271-1275) and Christopher Columbus's voyage (1492) in search of a shorter route to the East Indies for spices used in sausage.

Some early sausage makers were so proficient in spicing and processing sausages of distinctive types that the fame of their products spread throughout Europe.  Many of today's sausages bear the name of its city of origin.  From Italy comes Milano, Romano, Genoa, Bologna and Salami. From Frankfurt, Germany, came the frankfurters and from Vienna, Austria, weinerwurst.

Sausage can be made by grinding meat, poultry, or game, mixing in salt and other seasonings, and then stuffing into a container or casing.  Many meat processors and butcher shops make excellent sausages, but nothing compares to homemade sausages that are spiced and made with your own hands.