- The moon is still high in the sky
when Daphne Jones and her crew begin their workday
but you won't hear any complaining.
- I know that I'm working
but I don't think of it as work because it gives me joy.
I love what I do.
I think it's great...
- Daphne is carrying on a tradition that is deeply personal
and at the same time, ancient and universal.
She is making headcheese.
- There is a recipe for it all over the world.
[thud]
- Throughout history, hungry people have found a way
to use every part of an animal for food.
- It was for survival, for sustenance.
It wasn't gourmet.
It was food.
- Glorious Malone's Fine Sausage makes headcheese
from hog snouts and ears.
[thump]
- Then we spice it up.
Throw some love in there.
- But Daphne says the end result is not just sustenance.
- Headcheese makes some people's minds
think of all kinds of things.
But if I can present it to you,
"This is our gourmet pork delicacy."
You might be able to say, "Well okay, I can give that a try."
So sometimes you have to use language
to help people be able to move to the next step.
- Headcheese is made from meat and spices,
but for Daphne and many of her customers,
it contains memories as well.
- Christmas, Easter, birthdays.
Our product has mostly been built
by the love of the product.
We are still a secret in our town
even though we've been making this product for over 60 years.
- George and Glorious Malone came from the south to Milwaukee
in the 1940s and brought their headcheese recipe with them.
- During the holiday season,
they made this product for friends and relatives as a gift.
It was a love gift.
I think my parents actually started to say to themselves,
"We're making it so much,
I wonder if we could really sell it."
And so they did.
Went from store to store and tavern to tavern.
- Eventually, they opened a grocery store on 6th and Hadley,
in a thriving, black neighborhood.
- It was the neighborhood store
that was also part of everybody s family
and the family is part of the store.
- When the interstate opened up Milwaukee to the suburbs,
it divided the neighborhood.
- Once upon a time, this street, Walnut Street,
was a very thriving enterprise of African-American businesses.
And with the construction and the movement
and the expressway, all of that was moved.
- Daphne's father passed away,
but her mother carried on the business,
eventually opening up a larger facility.
- When she found this corner which was vacant,
she thought it was the perfect place to be.
- Daphne says Glorious Malone was the first, African-American woman
to run a sausage company in Wisconsin.
- It was a great source of pride that she created something,
that she built something.
- Eventually Daphne came back to help her mother run the factory.
- I believe in the beginning,
my intention was for the legacy not to fail.
I don't want
all of these decades to have been for nothing.
After my mother passed, I decided to rename it
and call it Glorious Malone's Fine Sausage
because it had two meanings.
It was her name, Glorious and it is a glorious product, right?
- Daphne wants to keep growing the business.
- I always tell people I want to get our products to the moon.
- For now, she'll have to settle
for seeing the moon every morning
when it's time to start the next batch of memories.