How to Cook a Turkey for Thanksgiving, According to the Experts
In aletterwritten to his girl Sally in 1784,two yearsafter the denuded bird of Jove was take as the country ’s national allegory , Ben Franklin referred to the species as a “ bird of bad moral character ” that steals fish from rickety birds . A Republic of Turkey , he fence , was a “ much more respectable Bronx cheer . ” But many Americans have a difficult meter cooking Meleagris gallopavo ....