Turkeys
November 26, 2023
When Peter and I sold our Cambridge home in 2017, we gave away all of our travel guides, but not before taking a photo of the travel shelf in our bookcase as a reminder of some wonderful adventures. At the same time, I gave away most of my cookbooks to a former colleague who was thrilled to add them to his collection.
But I held on to some, especially those written by Julia Child. (Small diversion here: on one of our first dates, Peter invited me to his place for dinner. I noted how stained the pages of his “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” were and decided he must be a frequent user of it. Turns out, he was just a sloppy, though great, cook.)
Last week, I grabbed that cookbook off my shelf. It opened to a two-page spread on turkey-making on which I had recorded the size and hours-to-cook of all Thanksgiving turkeys I had starting in 1976 (12lbs). In 1984, it was 23.5 lbs; in 2002, the last year I invited a bunch of foreign students, 22lbs. Etc.
Talk about a walk down memory lane…
Lovely story.
Posted by: Ellen Hoffmann | November 26, 2023 at 01:35 PM