Recipes

Such a deliberate approach promises the ultimate reward: vibrant yet gentle flavor and authentic, unique character.

Back in beautiful Portland, Oregon, Elias set out to approach the craft of charcuterie with purity and patience, recreating a nearly extinct traditional technique that is seldom seen in America....

The experience affirmed what he’d been taught all along: handmade is better.

Salumist Elias Cairo, grew up first generation Greek-American with a father who made charcuterie at home. Doing things the old-fashioned way was commonplace. Elias later journeyed to Europe to apprentice...