Bologna, sausages of all sorts and, of course, bacon star in international competition at UW-Madison

There are white jackets and red hats, an international feel and lots of smelling and tasting.

...For just the second time in the long history of the German Butchers Association, a team of judges has ventured outside of Germany to critique and score meat. The four days of judging in the atrium of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery includes more than 460 entries from 42 butcher shops and meat plants from around the United States and Canada, and serves as a satellite contest for the GBA’s international competition held every three years in May in Frankfurt, Germany....