Chef's Table: Let’s Talk Turkey By Jim Coleman with Candace Hagan
Most Americans eagerly anticipate gobbling down at least one turkey dinner during the winter holidays. It’s the festive feast the Pilgrims cut their teeth on, and the image of the golden brown bird crowning the dining room table has carved many a childhood memory in the USA. The turkey is so American that Benjamin Franklin jokingly campaigned for it to become our national bird instead of the bald eagle (which he considered a bird of bad moral character). He further reasoned the respectable turkey was "a true original native of America."
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Most Americans eagerly anticipate gobbling down at least one turkey dinner during the winter holidays. It’s the festive feast the Pilgrims cut their teeth on, and the image of the golden brown bird crowning the dining room table has carved many a childhood memory in the USA. The turkey is so American that Benjamin Franklin jokingly campaigned for it to become our national bird instead of the bald eagle (which he considered a bird of bad moral character). He further reasoned the respectable turkey was "a true original native of America."
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