Heilbad Heiligenstadt, Germany

A family-run butcher in Heilbad Heiligenstadt, deep in the Eichsfeld corner of Thuringia, where the pigs get processed the day they arrive. Sandra Schmidt runs it now, keeping the house recipe for Original Thüringer Rostbratwurst her family has stuffed for decades: minimum 51% pork from the shoulder and neck, caraway, marjoram, garlic, no flavor enhancers, no artificial dye. Klöppner belongs to the small group of producers who qualify for the EU-protected Thüringer Rostbratwurst geographic indication, which means every sausage has to be made inside the borders of Thuringia to carry the name.