HE BEGAN MAKING HIS OWN SAUSAGE BECAUSE he couldn’t find anybody else’s that he liked as much. Starting with a 12-stool diner/truck stop in 1946, Bob Evans built a pork products empire and a chain of 579 family restaurants.

Pork distributed to Las Vegas area restaurants has been recalled. The ham steaks may be contaminated with lysteria, a disease-causing bacteria. The local company that makes the ham, First Quality Sausages, recalled 930 pounds of the meat .

Scientists working on a world where home chefs could make meat in a countertop device the size of a coffee maker. Before bed, throw starter cells and a package of growth medium into the meat maker and wake up to harvest fresh sausage for breakfast.I am pretty sure this ISN'T the world I want to live in.

A sausage is a prepared food product originating in all parts of Europe and the European cuisine, usually made from ground meat, animal fat, salt, and spices, and sometimes other ingredients such as herbs, and generally packed in a casing. Sausage making is a very old food preservation technique.Traditionally casings have been made of animal intestines, though they are now often synthetic. Some sausages are cooked during processing, and the casing may be removed at that time. Sausages may be preserved by curing, drying in cool air, or smoking. The distinct flavor of some sausages is due to fermentation by Lactobacillus during curing.There is no consensus if similar products not packed in casings, such as pâté, meatloaf, scrapple and head cheese should be considered sausage.Besides being eaten on its own, sausage is also used as an ingredient in other foods.