Joshua Kace says he was never a potato chip guy. "Dried meat was always my snack." He remembers road-tripping to national parks out west at a young age when his parents pulled over at a gas station—it was the first time beef jerky touched his lips. "I always wanted more jerky. There never was enough jerky," he says. Kace, naturally, went on to launch his own small-batch artisan jerky company with two friends called SlantShack Jerky, the latest subject for Liza de Guia's Food Curated video series. More

Renaissance Sausage is kind of like the organic, locally sourced version of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile. Dan Samko, the founder and head sausage-maker of the Philadelphia-based truck, sources beef, chicken, and lamb from nearby farms like Lancaster Farm Fresh and Jamison Farm. "Everyone's eaten a sausage in their life, so you have to make some of the best sausage for people in this town to really take to it," he said in this video from Liza de Guia's Food Curated. His Mediterranean Sausage is gyro-inspired, made with lamb and beef sausage and topped with hummus, tzatziki-dressed cukes, and a red onion and tomato salad. Watch the video after the jump. More

In the latest video from Food Curated's Liza de Guia, we meet mussel farmer Gordon King. He farms 1.25 million pounds of Mediterranean mussels—an especially meaty-plump kind of mussel that's sought after by chefs—per year on the southern end of Washington's Puget Sound. He also looks like a brawnier version of Sean Connery, which is kind of what you'd hope for in a mussel farmer, right? Listen to him talk about harvest season in this video. More

Ever heard of geoducks? First of all, they're pronounced gooey-ducks. The prehistoric-looking and, well, pretty ugly shellfish, are native to the Pacific Northwest and fascinating creatures. Though tough to raise (it involves hours of hunched-over farming), they've been called the prime rib of clams. Liza de Guia of Food Curated tried some for the first time on her recent trip to Washington state. "I can honestly say as a seafood lover I felt like I had been missing out my whole life." Watch the video to learn more about geoducks. More