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By Gary Allen

When you get all the way down to it, taking the gut of an animal and stuffing it with the floor meat of that animal doesn’t particularly look all that intuitive an method of nutrients guidance. yet, as Gary Allen exhibits during this wealthy and interesting heritage, humans around the world were making sausage for hundreds of thousands of years. A veritable alphabet of sausages, from the Cajun andouille—and its much less highly spiced forerunner, a French saucisson of an analogous name––and Mexican chorizo all of the method to the Italian zampone, Allen tells a narrative of relentless creativity and invention, as diverse cultures stumbled on numerous delectable how you can rework those another way unappealing items of meat. Allen peppers his account with examples from world wide, in addition to old posters and ads, works of art and cartoons; jointly, they construct an image of a meals that has been beloved—even as it’s scoffed at—throughout human background, and continues to be a highly spiced favourite today.

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Such fermentation produces lactic acid, which preserves the meat (‘cooking’ it, in much the same way as lime juice denatures the fish protein in ceviche) and also creates a range of tangy flavouring compounds. Landjäger, soppressata and some kinds of chorizo are fermented. Many sausages are smoked, either while fresh or after some time spent hanging in cool air to cure. Smoking is done for two reasons: to help prevent the meat from spoiling and to add flavour. Sausages are prominent in cuisines from all parts of the globe, despite the development of newer, technological means of preserving meats.

Lancelot de Casteau’s Ouverture de cuisine (Opening the Kitchen, 1604) also features a number of fish sausages. His sausisse de Bologne de poisson in no way resembles anything we might recognize as bologna; it is made from carp and fresh and smoked salmon, with wine, cinnamon and eggs. Casteau also offered two recipes for sausages made from sturgeon, one from pike and even one from dogfish (a small shark). The New Kochbuch of Marx Rumpolt (1581) contains some unusual sausages: one of mutton and bacon, enclosed in sheep’s caul fat; Hirnwürst, a poached brain sausage made with eggs, ginger, pepper and saffron; several different ways to stuff a pig’s stomach; some sausages that are clearly antecedents of modern German sausages; and a brief allusion to a supposedly Italian beef sausage called Zurwonada.

The new flowering of literacy and the arts meant that cookbooks began to be written again (and, a little later, printed), so we can see the culinary changes reflected in the variety and distribution of sausages. While some well-known fourteenth-century cookbooks (the English The Forme of Cury, or Forms of Cooking, and German Das Buch von Guter Spise, or Book of Good Food) do not specifically mention sausages, others do. The anonymous Ménagier de Paris (The Goodman of Paris), written in the last decade of the century, includes boudins made of blood, goose or liver; andouilles; and a pork sausage made with fennel.

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