A Taste for Blood (sausage, that is)

December 7, 2009
By Guy Hand
Basque men cleaning leeks for Basque blood sausage

Basque men cleaning leeks for Basque blood sausage

Tis the season for holiday feasting.  But some celebratory foods can be a little hard to swallow.

Like blood sausage.

Made from the blood of freshly killed animals, it’s not exactly a holiday favorite.  So why have people flocked every November for over a half century to the Boise Basque Center . . . to eat blood sausage?

In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand bites into the mysterious allure of Basque blood sausage.

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