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The above photo is from iStock user bhofact2. This midweek open thread continues on with a nod towards the big day tomorrow, Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
First, a tip for re-heating ham and turkey slices, whether that’s later after Thanksgiving dinner, or the following days. Have a spray bottle?<\/strong> Before heating the leftover Thanksgiving food, spray it with water. When you’re done microwaving the turkey and ham, they’ll taste just like they came from the oven.<\/span><\/p>\n Now onto some Thanksgiving Trivia.<\/span><\/p>\n Did you know that turkey meat is a global meal, not just something that we Americans enjoy?<\/p>\n The Spaniards\/Conquistadores didn’t just bring vegetables and “display” animals back to Europe. They got a taste of turkey meat while in the new world. They were so taken in by the taste of turkey that they took some turkeys with them back to Spain.<\/p>\n Turkey meat ended up conquering the Spanish King. He subsequently ordered the importation of more turkeys. Through trade and popular demand, raising and eating turkeys spread throughout Europe. <\/p>\n From The Atlantic:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The success of Central American, European-cultivated turkeys in England from the reign of Henry VIII onwards is what made it possible to send them on ships to Virginia in 1584 and Massachusetts in 1629, This bridged us to the wild turkeys:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n When the French epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote of going on a wild-turkey hunt in 1794 in Connecticut, he observed that the flesh was so superior to that of European domesticated animals that his readers should try to procure, at the very least, birds with lots of space to roam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You could read more here<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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