Anti-turkey Calvin
Doing it the Lard Way (Satire from The New Yorker).
Deep fried turkey. To think! This is a reprint of Calvin Trillin's
satirical take on Thanksgiving. The New Yorker: From the Archives I am
perceived as anti-turkey. I'm aware of that. If you launch a campaign
to change the national... [I'm Gina Smith]
The New Yorker link doesn't seem to go to the right page, but here's the excerpt from Gina's page:
I am perceived as anti-turkey. I'm
aware of that. If you launch a campaign to change the national
Thanksgiving dish from turkey to spaghetti carbonara, you have to
expect some fallout. In 1981, I suggested that on the first
Thanksgiving the Indians, having had some experience with Pilgrim
cuisine in the past, may have shown up with a dish of their own and
that it may have been a dish their ancestors had picked up generations
before from Christopher Columbus, of Genoa's spaghetti carbonara. When
the Pilgrims rejected it as "heretically tasty" and "the sort of thing
foreigners eat," the Indian chief made a comment about the Pilgrims
that caused the misunderstanding we live with today: "What a bunch of
turkeys!" I hope it's a sign of my open-mindedness on this issue that
I've recently developed an interest in fried turkey. I'm talking now
about an entire turkey being lowered into several gallons of hot peanut
oil or lard. Cautiously.
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