Best of the Wurst - Alpine Village

Filed under: South Bay, Shop, Eat — StyleGuide @ 5:45 am

Best of the Wurst is an occasional series on those who have perfected the art of the frankfurter.

You can’t miss Alpine Village, that sprawling amusement park of Teutonic delights right off the 110 in Torrance.  The replica Bavarian village boasts a bakery and grocery store, several restaurants, a wedding chapel, a traffic school, a flight school, a dentist office, a swap meet (daily save Monday), 15 speciality stores including a “toy and leather store,” and, come fall, their legendary Oktoberfest.

Alpine Village’s sausage kitchen, helmed by Master Sausage Maker Alex Lagger, is the draw for me.  The kitchen boasts the 2000 award winning sausage at the Annual State of California Meat Processors Competition.  (A Meat Processors Competition?  Two thoughts on that:  1. What is this competition? and 2. How come I haven’t vacationed there?)

Mr. Lagger’s weisswurst is a milky white sausage — something you would never expect to hold its own against the richly colored links that share space in the RV-length deli case.  Yet the savory meat, served inside a casing with some snap, holds its shape on the plate yet melts in your mouth.  I never expected this kind of flavor from such a pale link. 

Weisswurst?  Willkommen!

$ (prices start in the $2-$3 range per half pound)

Where:  833 W. Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90502

Call:  310-327-4384

www.alpinevillage.net

Have you tried Alpine Village Market?  Do you have another source for handcrafted sausage?

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