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In this video, Louis Polidori tells the story of how his family started making Italian Sausage at their market in North Denver. The Polidori family has been making Italian Sausage since 1925; find out more at polidorimeats.com.

This story was produced by the Center for Digital Storytelling (storycenter.org) and the Colorado Historical Society, in conjunction with the “Italians of Denver” exhibit at the Colorado History Museum. More stories from this series are available at milehighstories.com.

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This entry was posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 1:43 am and is filed under food, neighborhoods. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Italian Sausage”

  1. Bob Garramone Says:
    February 12th, 2010 at 8:01 am

    If you’re Italian, you bought sausage from the Polidoris. Polidori’s Market on Shoshone was the place to buy fresh pasta and Italian sausage when I was young in the forties. It’s still the best.

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