Sausages have been around for a very long time but the sausage types with which we are so familiar today have been developed and refined by craftsmen over the past 3000 years or more. These same craftsmen have passed on the art of making a good sausage from one generation to the next for thousands of years. The word sausage comes from the Latin word salsus which means salt or salted. The Romans were making sausage using salt as a preservative over...