Mastering the Craft of Making Sausage (51 page)

Mr. Anderson is a graduate of the University of Oregon, where he studied the Japanese language and majored in East Asian Studies. He also earned a master’s degree in International Business at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.

While teaching and living in Japan, he took up the hobbies of food smoking and sausage making, and he has pursued these hobbies earnestly since 1985. At one point in time, he seriously considered launching a new career in Japan as a professional food smoker and sausage maker. He concluded, however, that it would be a better idea for him to use his teaching skills to write manuals about these subjects. Consequently, in 1995, he began to write two books so that he could share with others the knowledge that he had accumulated. The first book,
Mastering the Craft of Smoking Food
, was published in 2006.

Mr. Anderson returned to the United States in 1998, and is presently semi-retired; he lives with his wife in Aloha, Oregon, a suburb of Portland.