This article is adapted from the November 23, 2024, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. I need to get something off my chest that has been bugging me for years: Turkey doesn’t get the respect it deserves (my colleague, Sam O’Brien, agrees with me here). For years, I feel the American public has been fed this lie that eating turkey for the holidays is a concession to tradition rather than something anyone enjoys. We roast a turkey out of a sense of familial duty,…
