Today is Thanksgiving in the US, the day the Pilgrims - and everyone since - celebrated the bounties and fruitfulness of the newly-colonised America.
The traditional meal at Thanksgiving is turkey served with cranberry sauce and followed up by pumpkin pie. Nothing odd about that except that rather than cooking it in the oven for hours (and hours), as you would in Britain, here in the US turkeys are often if not mostly broiled.
It's hardly surprising that the citizens of the country that invented doughnuts and which deep-fries everything from Mars bars to beer and even butter (I kid you not) should also deep-fry Thanksgiving turkeys.
The traditional meal at Thanksgiving is turkey served with cranberry sauce and followed up by pumpkin pie. Nothing odd about that except that rather than cooking it in the oven for hours (and hours), as you would in Britain, here in the US turkeys are often if not mostly broiled.
It's hardly surprising that the citizens of the country that invented doughnuts and which deep-fries everything from Mars bars to beer and even butter (I kid you not) should also deep-fry Thanksgiving turkeys.
Unfortunately, the process of immersing a very large bird in boiling fat is a delicate art at the best of times, and houses are burnt down year after year by inexperienced chefs. To give you some idea just how many, consider this: in 2008 alone, fire crews were sent out to 1800 home fires at Thanksgiving - twice as many as on any other day of the year.
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