On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:44:08 GMT, "Dimitri" >
wrote:

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>"modom" > wrote in message
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>> D and I are going to a friend's place for Thanksgiving, and she tells
>> us she's getting an heirloom turkey for the feast. Has anybody had an
>> experience with such a thing?

>From google first hit.
>
>It's Turkey Time?
>
>Last year Northwest gastropods ordered 225 turkeys as part of Slow Food
>USA?s campaign to bring the American Heirloom Turkey back from the verge of
>commercial extinction. This year we hope to double that number.

Yikes! Gastropods! I knew the slugs got bigger than andouille
sausages up there in Washington State, but I had no idea they could
order their food like this. Slow food = munchies at a snail's pace?
>
>The turkey: Traditional American Bronze variety, Wishart strain. Raised to
>order by Wish Poultry of Prairie City, Oregon. These birds are hatched in
>April, prairie raised: grain-fed, pesticide and antibiotic free and
>harvested just before the Holidays.
>
Thanks for the info. Have you tasted one?

>Second Hit
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>To many folks, Southern food conjures up visions of everything from ham &
>biscuits to grits & gumbo to great bbq & great bourbon, with pecan pie to
>cap off a serious meal. But what do you do if you are a turkey growing up in
>the heart of Kentucky? You take a name that not only speaks to place, but
>speaks as well to Kentucky tradition. So it is with the Bourbon Red,
>developed in the late 1800s from a Pennsylvania breed known as the Tuscarora
>Red & is to date the most popular (and says Miriam Burros of the New York
>Times, the most tasty) of the heirloom turkey breeds.
>
>Also known as the Bourbon Butternut or Kentucky Red in the bluegrass region
>of Kentucky. It resulted from breeding stocks taken to Kentucky & selected
>for improved meat production & a darker red color. Recognized by the
>American Poultry Association in 1909 & it was ambitiously promoted - today
>it remains the most numerous of heirloom turkey breeds on Slow Food's Ark
>USA. (Slow Foods is a pun on the Fast Food not very healthful or tasty
>movement)
>
>Dimitri
>
Thanks again.

modom