Catherine De Orio

The Missing Link In Your Breakfast Revealed! October is National Sausage Month Nationally Recognized Food Expert Provides Tips on How to Incorporate America’s Favorite Meat Into Your Breakfast Routine Catherine De Orio, Nationally Recognized Food Expert Background: Let’s be frank – whether your preference is beerwurst or bratwurst, Polish or pork, smokies or salami, breakfast or dinner links, there is no better time to reacquaint yourself with your favorite sausage or to familiarize yourself with a few new ones than National Sausage Month. National Sausage Month is a celebration of everything Americans love about these links from the folklore to the flavor. Sausages first made their appearance over two thousand years ago, and it is still a growing industry today. In fact, according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, dinner sausage sales increased 4.6 percent last year, with more than 1.6 billion in sales. Breakfast sausage sales remained relatively steady, at 8.7 million in sales, and representing 30 % of sausages sold in the U.S. Plus, breakfast sausage is a great source of protein, which is not only good for you, but gives you the energy you need to make it throughout the day. Did you know? Sausages are mentioned in The Odyssey which was written by Homer more than 2,700 years ago. The modern word “sausage” is derived from the Latin ~salsus~, meaning salted. America’s favorite sausage will even be making its debut appearance in this year’s Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade. A survey of Major League baseball parks revealed that ballparks are serving about half as many sausages as hot dogs to baseball fans. Sara Lee Chef Catherine de Orio is available for live interview to talk about the history of sausage and most importantly, how to incorporate a variety of tasty sausage dishes into your morning routine. More About Catherine De Orio: Sara Lee Chef Catherine De Orio is a leading food expert who regularly appears on network affiliates and media outlets across the country, including WMAQ-TV (NBC, Chicago), WUSA-TV (CBS, Washington, D.C) and WJBK-TV (FOX, Detroit), to share her culinary expertise. In addition, she has also made several appearances on The Today Show. Chef De Orio is also a food/trends contributor to In Touch Weekly and was recently published in Thirsty? Chicago a hip, new guide on where to find the best drinks in Chicago. Growing up in a large Italian family in a suburb of Chicago, she learned to cook at the foot of a true master: her Nana Kay. It was then that she developed a deep appreciation of the power and pleasure of great meals, which she honed while living in Venice, Italy. Chef De Orio attended the prestigious culinary school of Kendall College in Chicago, Illinois and has worked with nationally renowned chefs Gene Kato of Japonais and James Beard Award-winning Tony Mantuano of Spiaggia. Prior to Kendall College, Chef De Orio was an attorney who, fortunately for our stomachs, decided to pursue her true passion – cooking.?