Dalarna, Sweden

Sweden

Dalarna sits in central Sweden, a province of red-painted wooden cottages, deep forests, and Lake Siljan. The copper mine at Falun (Stora Kopparberget) operated for nearly a thousand years and drew German miners who brought sausage-making traditions in the 17th century. Their legacy: falukorv, Sweden's national sausage. The mine is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The sausage outlived the industry that created it.

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Sausages from Dalarna, Sweden

Falukorv

Dalarna, Sweden

Sweden's most eaten sausage: a thick, mild, smoked cylinder of beef and pork that appears on dinner tables from Malmö to Kiruna. Falukorv must contain at least 40% meat under its PGI protection. Swedes consume roughly 30,000 tonnes per year. It comes in two shapes: a large horseshoe ring or a straight log, sealed in red plastic. Cheap, filling, available in every grocery store, and loved across all social classes. No other sausage occupies such a central place in a nation's weeknight cooking.

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