European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily grind some exotic sausages by Ted Anthony the associated press t is said Laws and sausages Are two things people should never watch being made. Sonny d Angelo does t know about Laws but when it comes to sausages he could t disagree More. D Angelo loves an audience and he often gets one at his meat store in Philadelphia s italian Market where the daily grind produces some 200 varieties of sausage from Alligator to Snake. If it has walked flown or swum Odds Are it has been in a d Angelo sausage sometime in the 82 years since sicilian Butcher Santo d Angelo opened his shop in the same place it sits today. Sausage All natural no fillers nitrate free sausage crammed with nuts wine spices and every meat imaginable is in the d Angelos blood. It s the quintessential ast food says Sonny d Angelo who runs the South Philly store with his brother Anthony. A Ausaf is a great vehicle for expressing How you feel.". Since 1972, when the Brothers took Over from their father they have _ expanded the shop s repertory to the Point where Many gourmets consider it " the East coast s Premier purveyor of edible exotica. Consider these items All made fresh Christmas seafood sausage with _ cod turbot sole Monk scallops and _ shrimp. Duck sausage with raisins and almonds. Wild boar sausage with cranberries and Ligo berries. Rabbit sausage with Cognac and Dijon Mustard _ _ _ and those Are the Tamer varieties from the Brothers who talk of meat As if itis Fine wine. _ newly popular sausages contain Emu a Lamb beef flavor with Strong poultry undertones and Ostrich somewhere Between beef and Venison. There is Snake sausage and even Alligator sausage  Many spices i did t want to hide the Gator flavor " Sonny says. A new variety combines vegetables Low fat Yogurt and fresh Turkey breast. A fish sausage took two years to perfect. _ j even african lion meat is available at $24 per Pound. Neophytes take Comfort every sausage is sold with cooking instructions. In the display window rabbits hang by their feet alongside Raccoon pelts Snake skins Large hunks of Turtle meat and a Small vat of something called Hunters Chili which contains. Venison Buffalo , Rabbit and Kangaroo. Our window is like an Accident on the expressway people Ore. Horrified but they still slow Down to Short subject. Sonny d Angelo holds up links of italian sausage one of the Tamer varieties he and brother Anthony left sell at their Philadelphia meat store. Look Sonny says. _ the d Angelos Affinity for meat is _ nothing recent. Nor is the italian sausage heritage from which it Springs Talarcio an ancient roman chef used to Cook huge pigs that when Cut open would spin out sausages filled with truffles porcine mushrooms and other delicacies. The d Angelo clan picked up the Butcher a tradition six generations ago. Sonny and Anthony s Grandfather immigrated from Taormina Sicily at if Iti has walked flown or swum Odds Are it has been in a d Angelo sausage. Age 15 and worked in a Pennsylvania Coal mine until he saved enough Money to buy a cow. He moved East to Downingtown and ran a meat business there until opening the Philadelphia store. His son Santo jr., was an avid Hunter and introduced game into . Anthony arid Sonny began working there As kids and ultimately became hooked. " when the average kid was playing football we were in the slaughterhouse Anthony recalls. They have inherited their father s _ appreciation of what Sonny Calls an italian philosophy of maintaining ties to the food s origins. Look at this critters and turtles in the window. No Sty Rafoa in. Halla sheep. You can recognize it came from an animal Sonny says. Some americans can t handle that. They re horrified. People have no respect for life. They re out there shooting each other. It s like a video game they press a Button and  of meat comes out. When you kill an animal you get a better understanding of the purpose of " life. And death. You explain to a child that if they leave their meat on their plate an animal has Given up its life for   time the d Angelos have a new Challenge coming up with items that Are tasty but not too fatten Irig. A new vegetarian sausage contains a mousse of cauliflower potato mushrooms,7 peppers and Broccoli a but just because they Are adapting to the times does t mean the d Angelos Are sacrificing their heritage. The sum of the sausage total should be More than jts parts Sonny says. I make them like i want to eat them so i can be proud. If you get closer to your food you get closer to. What your world s All  How to digest from nutrition studies by Kristin Eddy Cox news service where do they get All , anyway month after month the stories hit the press like Elvis sightings hot dogs cause leukaemia. Margarine causes heart attacks. Apples Are evil and fat is fatal unless the fruit is organic. My the fat is Olive Oil which is Good for you except when you eat too much of it. No wonder the Public has a collective Case of whiplash from the nutrition warnings that Are doled out like water torture is this going to be the last Droplet How Long before the Nexton hits now that food and nutrition have become a near obsession with Many americans diet Studie and advice will keep coming. The Only umbrella available to Consumers a to read closely and question authority. Stop looking for the one Miracle food that will take weight off or Burn fat and cholesterol. Each food scare should t mean an immediate purge of the refrigerator s contents. Don t be swayed too much by the headlines said Peter Greenwald director of cancer prevention and control at the National cancer Institute. In diet you Don t usually have sudden results. Single factors May be minor or even  people think that nutrition changes ail the time said Marion Nestle of the department of nutrition at new York University. But the simple issues that Are not that interesting get most of your calories from grains and fruits and Don t eat a lot of meat and Dairy products that part does not change at All  one pitfall of nutrition studies comes when the information is gathered outside the controlled environment of a Laboratory and. Based on interviews of the patient s behaviour Over a period of years. There s a lot of human error in self reporting on dietary intake Nestle said people tend to under report what s bad for them and Over report what s Good that they Are  to to understand How nutrition advice comes to be Greenwald explains that most of the medical research in this country is funded by the National institutes of health Nihmy. If researcher wants to doa study this is the typical procedure j the first step is to write a Grant proposal and submit it to the Nih. A group of Peers in the Field is brought in to evaluate the proposal which has been based on initial research to see if it merits funding. If the idea passes this first peer review the researcher is Given a Grant for a limited number of years. Out of that work the results might be written up and sent to a medical " journal. The journal then asks a panel of experts to evaluate the study and recommend or reject the paper for publication. If the study then appears in a respected Arena such As the new England journal of Medicine or the journal of the american medical association it s Safe to assume that the recommendations have been researched and evaluated fairly thoroughly. Still the sometimes conflicting nutrition advice is confusing says Chris Rosenbloom an associate professor in nutrition and dietetics at Georgia state University. But that should t cause people to give up healthful eating habits entirely. Look at the changes that have come about in the fitness Industry she said. People Don t say i m going to Stop exercising because they be changed their minds about most effective exercise program 22 the stars and stripes saturday december 3, 1994