Since 1954, Parma Sausage has made Italian meats in Pittsburgh, pairing old-world flavor with small-batch production and an 18-day aging process. The business has moved through four generations while continuing to sell its meats through a Pittsburgh retail storefront and wholesale operation. Its seasonal hardwood-smoked hams are a longstanding holiday tradition, available around Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.
Uncle Charley'sFounded in 1989 by Charley Armitage and his wife, Uncle Charley’s makes fresh pork sausage, beginning with the premium Italian sausage Charley developed for Western Pennsylvania. The Vandergrift company builds its signature flavor around premium pork and Charley’s seasoning expertise, and has grown from local independent stores into a familiar brand across Western Pennsylvania and the Cleveland market. Its line now includes griller sausages, breakfast products, meatballs, and heat-and-eat meals while retaining the original focus on fresh ingredients and natural casings.VANDERGRIFT, PA
Seltzer's Smokehouse MeatsSince Harvey Seltzer developed his spice blend in 1902, Seltzer’s Smokehouse Meats has made Lebanon Bologna and other all-beef smoked meats in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. Now fourth-generation owned, the family still uses tall wooden smokehouses and hand-tended fires for its signature three-day natural hardwood smoking process, without fillers or artificial smoke. Seltzer’s was the country’s first federally inspected Lebanon Bologna company and remains one of the oldest continually USDA-inspected operations in the United States.PALMYRA, PA
Esposito’s Finest Quality SausageEsposito’s Finest Quality Sausage makes authentic Italian sausages in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, where the business traces its roots to a fresh pork and poultry butcher shop founded in 1933. The sausage manufacturing operation grew from that family business under Giovanni Esposito’s son Armand, and the company says its traditional recipes and spice blends remain part of its products today.NEW YORK, NY
Ricci's Italian SausageRicci's Italian Sausage is a family sausage maker founded by Ernest and Stella Ricci in McKees Rocks in 1945, using a family spice recipe brought from Sulmona, Italy. Three generations of Ricci sausage-makers have continued the same recipe, producing sausage in small batches and preparing foods at the shop. The company has been USDA federally inspected since 1973 and now ships frozen products nationwide.MCKEES ROCKS, PA