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| Secrets To Cooking Turkeys |
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Cooking turkey can be very challenging. More so because the pressure and stress that is created around cooking of this bird is tremendous. The cook is the centre of all attention when turkey is being cooked, which is usually on a special holiday like the Christmas or Thanksgiving. If anything goes wrong with the cooking the entire holiday is spoilt and the holiday gets less importance. This happens during most holidays where food is the centre of all activities. Slight mistake on the cooking and the entire day is marred. No wonder then that people for centuries have gathered to commemorate the invention of turkeys during Christmas. It is also the reason people celebrate on Thanksgiving Day the migration of turkeys to North America. The story goes like this : turkeys escaped to North America to start a new life, from countries where eating them was a way of life. Hence to celebrate their migration, Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Canadians on the other hand have experienced the turkey migration on another day – hence the difference in the days of celebration. More Secrets To Turkey Cooking Since turkeys always land at the consumer’s level, without any feathers, it was believed in the olden times that the bird did not have any feathers to begin with. Thus people believed that the feathers we see turkeys donned in, in cartoons and in the wilderness are a way in which they protect themselves from predators. All these stories make cooking turkeys fun and challenging too. Going by all the stories surrounding turkeys, people have come to believe that turkeys also suffer from the same type of laziness as those who cook it and eat it. Some strange laziness sets in, people say, after cooking and eating turkeys, by which people simply relax throughout the balance of the day. This is perhaps because turkeys, soon upon arrival to North America injected themselves with this lazy serum, to further shoo away the predators from attacking them. What next ! |
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