In the Boston area there are a few specialty butchers and restaurant suppliers that carry casings. I would think it would be true also in other areas. Mail order sources include: Allied Kenco 1-800-356-5189 The have 7 different varieties, as well as a lot of other sausage making supplies and equipment. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Thompson" <brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com> To: "Curtiss-OX-5" <Curtiss-OX-5@email.msn.com> Cc: <chile-heads-digest@globalgarden.com> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [CH] Chorizo > > In Diana Kennedy's as well as Rick Bayless' books are a number of > > delightful recipes. What's most difficult is finding suitable casings. > > Seems to me the casing is mostly superfluous; in perhaps all the recipes > I've seen using chorizo, the first step is to remove the chorizo from > casings then fry until rendered, hence presumably no advantage whatsoever > of stuffing into casings versus leaving as bulk sausage. > > --- Brent > >