...mine. I have had many moments when I felt that I had become an adult. Like I have made a tangible contribution to society. My first real job. My first pieces of furniture (non-thrift store). My first car. My first sucessful fund-raiser. Various moments in my career. Blah blah blah. None of these have equaled my last feat:I made the Thanksgiving turkey.
Big thanks to all those who walked before me to create this art and science. Cheers to the person who discovered that by using the process of osmosis, the turkey meat's cell membranes will open up to allow salt in, thus chemically breaking down internal fiber protiens - creating a tender, juicy meat. Thanks to all those who perished before the discovery of the "safe temperature" of turkey - 165 degrees F. Prost to whoever invented compound butter. An indebited gratitude to the Jewish people for their Kosher salt. A tribute statue should be erected to the boy scout that figured out the best way to truss that bird with all the crazy knots and miles of twine, I can barely tie my shoes. Thank you Alton Brown, Emeril, Tyler Florence, and the Food Network staff. I couldn't have done it without you. All of you. Thanks.
I would also like to thank King Soopers for selling an 18lb. turkey for $10. For the neighbor girls for organizing and throwing the shindig - and making it possible for me to focus on the turkey and not on the side dishes (all FIFTEEN of them). Thank you vegetarian girls at the table that decided to break the rules for just one day...and then go back for seconds. And lastly, thank you food-induced coma.
See you next year.
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