Redesigning Sausages

With the concept of sausage as her vessel, ECAL alum and designer Carolien Niebling presented reduced meat creations during the recent Milan Design Week, in an effort to draw attention to the dangers of vast meat consumption. Niebling refers to sausage as the oldest designed food, and explains that all materials involved have been selected for form and function. Using traditional sausage-making techniques, the designer …

Copenhagen Street Dog

Two sausage-obsessed Danes bring the much-loved juicy, smoked pølse to Brooklyn

Let’s be real: for most, the blissfully ignorant days of loving the classic American hot dog are over. Because, well, we just don’t know what’s in those things. But rather than picking up an impostor in the health food aisle, why not turn to Denmark: a country equally enamored with traditional casual sausages. The difference between the two? The Danish pølse, as it’s called, is …