Turkey for Thanksgiving

In The Pilgrims Didn't Brine, Kim Severson set out to find a simple way to prepare the turkey. After much consultations with various experts, she "settled on a roasting temperature of 425 degrees... started with a room-temperature turkey... the breast tented with foil", and "no flipping, no basting." It's important to have a meat thermometer because when the thigh hit 165 degrees [Fahrenheit], we ought to let the turkey "rest for a half-hour, covered with foil and a slightly damp kitchen towel, to allow the juices to settle back into the meat." It takes about two hours to roast a 12 to 14 pound turkey by using Kim's method. Maybe sometime down the road, I'll need to refer back to this simple recipe. By the way, a fresh bird from the local butcher seemed to be the key to success in roasting for Thanksgiving.

In Quotation

"In this world, there is a kind of painful progress: longing for what we left behind and dreaming ahead," Harper Pitt from Tony Kushner's Angels in America.

"Leaving things open... so gaps remain... so that one has time to look to others who in some cases need time to get to know themselves," Julie Lopes-Curval director of Seaside.

"And it's not a matter of whether the war is not real or if it is. Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact," Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11 paraphrasing George Orwell's 1984.