WATCH: Elias Cairo Gets Serious About Salami & Switzerland

Elias Cairo needed fresh, homemade salami in Portland for a picnic. When there wasn’t any to be found, he used all the skills he learned in a remote corner of the Swiss Alps, to create Olympia Provisions, one of the USA’s greatest charcuteries. Now, Eli is traveling with us to all his old haunts in the Swiss Alps, so we asked him how all this meat-making got started. Watch!