Turkey

Dinde

What it is

A Mexican bird that English speakers named after Turkey and the French after India — dinde, from poule d'Inde — because both assumed anything exotic came from somewhere east. Neither guess was even close.

In the kitchen

Brine it or cook the legs and breast separately. They want temperatures forty minutes apart and no roasting method reconciles them.

Goes with

Chestnut Sage Cranberry Butter Thyme Onion Bay leaf Lard

Also used with

Chilhuacle negro Chile mulato Dried cranberry

In season alongside

Hind Kid goat Roe deer Fallow deer Tiger pufferfish (torafugu) King oyster

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