I MUST CONFESS, I LOVE A GOOD MEAT MARKET. Whenever I travel, I get off the big freeways and hit the backroads because small towns in rural areas always show me the agriculture of where I am. Small-town meat markets in particular are looking glasses into the past. The styles of fresh or cured sausages immediately tell the story of the cultures in that area. Fresh chorizo? It’s a Latin community. An array of styles of bratwurst? There was a German settlement here.
