Acknowledgments

From Meredith Erickson:

First and foremost thank you to Eli Cairo for being an incredible sausage maker and teacher, and an even better friend. Working with you was a complete joy. On to Greece!

To Michelle Cairo for being up for anything, agreeing to it all, and being a sister in what seems to be an endless sausage party.

To Tyler Gaston for the aid of words, dishwashing, cooking, driving, jokes, booze, de-feathering, reminiscing, building, and more booze.

To Marty for the good times, endless support, and laughs. You smell great.

To Nate Tilden for building something worth writing about.

To the OP partners for giving me one of the best trips in my life: the trip to Switzerland.

Big thank you to Jess Hereth for your words and thoughts on wine. And for throwing the best wine party imaginable.

To Alex Yoder, Colin Stafford, Victor Deras, and Melissa McKinney for recipes and endless patience.

To Wolfy and Alison for bringing great travel vibes, intense hangovers, and even better photos.

To the best Swiss guide a girl can ask for: Fabian Brunner.

To Karen Brooks for making the introduction.

To Kim Witherspoon and the entire Inkwell team, as always.

To Aaron Wehner and Julie Bennett for always believing. And to Kelly Snowden and Kara Plikaitis for being so easy to work with and so diligent about the details.

Thank you to our world-class testers, namely: Jane Rabinowicz, Patrick McEntyre, David McEntyre, David Levine, Jackie Dahlquist, David Briggs, Bonnie Crocker, Dana Drutz, Benjamin Culpepper, Micah Corcoran-Eller, Johnny Phompadith, Aron Adams, Jeff Linsing, Margaret Zynda, Amanda Grooms, Kimberly Patton, Jacob Lydamore, Catherine Coleman, Amy Maetzold-Hill, Jon Vaught, and Zach Eidem.

As always, thank you to my family and friends. These books are not always easy, and neither am I.

From Elias Cairo:

Thank you to Mom and Dad for showing me that working hard at something you love is the only way.

To Meredith Erickson, how in the hell did you keep all of these scattered ideas together and never let us settle on the easy way? You are one of the most talented people I have ever met. My favorite part of this is that we became pals.

To Eric Wolfinger, what a pleasure it has been to work with you. I thought I was getting a great photographer, but what I actually got was so much more. Your good eye, design, and willingness to be down for whatever was amazing. Honestly, thank you so much for being so invested in this project. With all the work we did, you made it a blast the whole time. You make it look so easy.

To Alex Yoder, Colin Stafford, Victor Deras, Melissa McKinney, and Amelia Lane, for all of the real recipes that are in this book. I am not worthy.

To Michelle Cairo, Mom likes me more. FACT. But thank you for risking it all on us.

To Tyler Gaston, we aren’t tasting. We are drinking!

To Martin Schwartz, I want to be you.

To Nate Tilden, honestly for everything.

To Jessica Rose Hereth, you are cuter than a kitten. Also, thanks for having great taste.

To Alison Christiana, move here.

To Fabian Brunner, checking shit out since 1998.

To Famillia Stump, danke für wirklich alles.

To the Louis/Dressner Team and for everyone who attended our dinner, one of my favorite times ever.

To the amazingly talented and hardest working folks that actually make Olympia Provisions work.

To Josh Graves, Paul Oppliger, and Handsome Joe Brennan, for making the best damn product day in and day out.

To Karen Brooks, for the introduction and all you do for Portland.

To Julie Bennett, Aaron Wehner, and Emma Campion, for giving a guy whose nickname is “spell check” a chance to write a book.

To Kelly Snowden and Kara Plikaitis, for all of the endless hours you spent catching all of my mistakes, and keeping me calm by saying we will get through this.

To Clancy Drake, Dawn Yanagihara, and Andrea Chesman, for catching and fixing every last thing.

And to Kim Witherspoon, Stump’s Alpenrose, Berggasthaus Aescher, Metzgerei Fässler, Adolph Fässler, Berggasthaus Forelle, Jakob Knaus, Berggasthaus Rotsteinpass, Jann Marugg, Brugger Jorg, Deep Canyon Preserve, Beau Culpepper, The Oregon Culinary Institute, K.M.S., Le Creuset, and to everyone who has supported this small business.