"sausage-making" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Naomi Guttman, Max Wall, “Sausage in Oil: Preserving Italian Culture in Utica, NY”, in Cured, Smoked, and Fermented: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery:",
          "text": "Yet in Utica, New York, which has a strong Italian-American identity, families continue a tradition of dry-cured sausage-making brought over from southern Italy by their grand- and great-grandparents at the beginning of the twentieth century.",
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          "ref": "2001, Gregory Wawro, Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Gingrich demonstrated his lack of \"sausage-making\" skills by taking actions that were detrimental to holding coalitions together.",
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          "ref": "2012, Alison Dagnes, A Conservative Walks Into a Bar: The Politics of Political Humor, →ISBN, page xi:",
          "text": "While true, politics are an important part of our society, and thanks to C-SPAN, we can watch the sausage-making happen live.",
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