Even commonplace foods can have a bit of intrigue. For example, take sausages and their mysterious casings, that skin-like material that holds the meat and other ingredients together. Are they edible?

Curing your own meats and stuffing your own sausages is one step you can take to get closer to a farm-to-table kitchen. Homemade sausage is typically composed of fresh ground meat and spices stuffed ...

Smoked sausage is a pillar of Texas barbecue. We talk a lot about the staggering sausage varieties—pork, beef, fine-grind, coarse-grind, hot guts, jalapeno-cheese, macaroni and cheese—but what’s ...

In Too Afraid to Ask, we’re answering food-related questions that may or may not give you goosebumps. Today: What in the world is sausage casing made of? “How the sausage is made” historically had ...

If Oktoberfest brings links to your plate, there’s more to know about the meat- and vegetable-based casings they’re stuffed into. By Katherine Kornei Humans have been making sausages for thousands of ...

We must treat the universally iconic sausage with respect to do it justice in the kitchen, by avoiding these blunders when ...