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Sunday Sausage Summit with Bruce Aidells and Franco Dunn

Wednesday, at 12:34 by

There are still tickets available for Sunday’s conversation with Bruce Aidells, which takes place from 2 to 5 p.m. at the beautiful and rustic Windrush Farm in Petaluma. When I wrote my first blog post about this event, entitled “What Do Downton Abbey and Sausage Baron Franco Dunn have in common?”, I did not know that Franco Dunn, who sells his extraordinary sausages at several local farmers markets, had been Bruce Aidells’s roommate and, in addition, was Aidells Sausage’s first… Read More »

What do Downton Abbey and Sausage Baron Franco Dunn have in common?

Friday, at 12:31 by

You might think that a popular television drama like Downton Abbey and a local sausage maker like Franco Dunn have little in common. But they do. Both the acclaimed drama and the widely praised artisan sausages stand on the shoulders of the pioneers who came before them. Downton Abbey wouldn’t exist, certainly not in its current form, without Upstairs Downstairs, the enormously popular 1970s PBS drama featuring the lives of an upper class British family and the butler, cook, maids… Read More »