From mine to tableSourced
A sausage with a connection to mining ropes
Ox hides supplied ropes for the copper mine at Falun, Sweden. Preserving the remaining meat by salting and smoking forms part of falukorv’s history. The modern sausage developed later.
A mining tool helped shape a local food tradition.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-09