The Thanksgiving Quest For The (Scientifically) Best Turkey

Published: Nov. 22, 2023, 8 a.m.

b'Turkey is the usual centerpiece of the Thanksgiving dinner, but it\'s all too easy to end up with a dry, tough, flavorless bird. For NPR science correspondent Maria Godoy, it got so bad that several years ago, her family decided to abandon the turkey tradition altogether. Can science help her make a better bird this year? That\'s what she hopes as she seeks expert advice from food science writers and cookbook authors Nik Sharma and Kenji L\\xf3pez-Alt.

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