>Today it's a simple red sauce on linguine with - arguably - some of the best Calabrian pepper salsicca sausage in the country: Fiama from Salume Beddu up in the city. I deeply miss the sausage monger of my childhood, Sonny D'Angelo. I have no idea whether he is still alive, but the dude made the best sausages I've ever had, his wild boar and ligonberry sausage was fucking fantastic. He was also a notably pissed off and ornery individual, the sort of person that got pissed off if he had customers. If you ever tried to pay with card, he would go into a tirade about how much the processing companies take in merchant fees. In retrospect, he extremely based. Regardless, he made by far and away the best sausage in Philly. I once saw Marc Vetri in his shop, and Marc Vetri is a man who is generally considered to be the best of the serious Philadelphia Chef/Restaurateurs, like, he is kind of a big deal, and Sonny D'Angelo is just tearing into the guy as he buys his sausage, once again, over credit card processing fees. And I am not sure if Sonny D'Angelo doesn't know who he is talking to, or whether he simply doesn't give a fuck. Regardless, Vetri takes the verbal abuse with a sheepish smile. The sausage was just that good. Unfortunately, Sonny shutdown maybe 10 years ago. Dude was a shit businessman, obviously. But he was the singular greatest sausage-monger I have ever seen.