Michigan and sausage, is there a more enduring love affair? From this former outsider's perspective the state's intense love of cars, shooting deer and making sausage has always been a bit perplexing. But everybody's got to have their something, eh?
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After getting his culinary degree, Hansen spent six years working at New York’s Del Posto for Mario Batali (whose own Dad is quite the sausage pro), and moved back to Michigan where he and girlfriend Hannah Cheadle opened Biercamp, where they churn out fresh and smoked sausages, many from recipes handed down from his butcher dad and grandfather.
Hansen says breakfast sausage is a great recipe to start with because the ingredients are simple and you don't necessarily need to master the technique of stuffing it into links.
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