“Sausage is my life,” Steve Polidori says with a shrug and a smile before spearing another chunk of his Polidori Hatch Chile Cheese sausage and biting into it. Most people would rather not know how ...

A worker puts trays of sausages into a packaging machine at New York Style Sausage Company’s manufacturing facility in Sunnyvale on Oct. 22, 2025. Photo by Seeger Gray. Nothing bonds generations of ...

Wisconsin is known for its beer and cheese, but any good synopsis won’t forget our state’s sausage-making culture. While bratwurst — as well as sausage production in Madison and Milwaukee — tend to ...

Monk Whaley and his family run a supermarket in Beulaville (Duplin Co.). He is known as Mr. Monk, and the sausage he makes by hand draws people from across the state and beyond--especially at ...