"All three of our families have been making sausage like this for more than a hundred years," he said.

She had been making eggs, sausage, and tea when the phone rang.

What about intestines, which were routinely used to make sausage?

He learned his trade as a child, making sausage for his father's meat market.

I thought he'd be pleased, you know, to realize he had the power to make magical sausages.

"My parents bought me a meat cooler from one of the local guys who made sausage, to store the flowers in," he said.

He notes with some pride that his own 10-year-old son, Justin, had enjoyed making sausage on a recent visit to the store.

"Making sausage is hard work, and on top of that to have to answer questions and fill out forms, it's too much," he said.

He hired a butcher who had learned to make sausages at his Italian father's knee.

Known as the "sausage man", his company makes and sells sausages in Moscow.