The first year I helped our farmer friend Mike slaughter his turkeys I came home with a 40-pound bird as my reward. It barely fit in our oven and my wife has been on a tear ever since trying to reduce the size of our Thanksgiving gobbler. This year, we implored Mike to find us [...]
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This month I play a small role in the never-ending effort to “solve” Thanksgiving. In Magazine Land, that would entail the issue of how to prepare a turkey correctly sized for your particular gathering. I have to admit, this assignment almost stumped me. Of course, Martha had already done all the heavy lifting, coming up [...]
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On the right-hand side of this page, you’ll see a picture of a man in a strange plastic suit using a machine to pluck a turkey. That’s our farmer friend Mike Klein. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve visited his small truck farm in Brandywine, Maryland, shortly before Thanksgiving to help him round [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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