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 »