A Cook's Notebook: Turducken: Three Birds - One Stone
Series: A Cook's Notebook
From: Ali Berlow
Length: 00:02:57
A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives - airs weekly on WAMC
Turducken aired on Oct. 23, 2003 on WCAI & WNAN
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Accompanying recipes available at www.cooksnotebook.com
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A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives - airs weekly on WAMC Turducken aired on Oct. 23, 2003 on WCAI & WNAN PROMOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Accompanying recipes available at www.cooksnotebook.com
Transcript
You can stuff just about anything if you really want to. Olives, grape leaves, dates, mushrooms, shrimp. Find a hole, make a hole and stuff it then bake or broil it. Fill the cavity of a turkey with an apple and sage stuffing and roast it for Thanksgiving. But when you de-bone a bird (or any animal) by removing its skeletal structure and then fill that boneless bag of carcass back up with something else altogether - then you've got what the French gastronomes call a 'ballotine'. It describes meat that's been boned, stuffed, rolled and tied together like a bundle and then roasted or braised. When the Cajuns down South do a version of ballotine - they take a boned chicken and pack it inside of a duck, and then inside of a turkey and layer it with stuffing - and call the whole thing a tur-duc-ken. Tur-Duc-Ken. Get it?
I wanted to try one but wasn't willing to go through the trouble of ma...
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Posted on November 15, 2005 at 06:28 PM | Permalink
Review of A Cook's Notebook: Turducken: Three Birds - One Stone
This story got my attention because I, too, have thought/dreamed about turducken. Like our narrator, I felt the whole process was too much. I also looked into calling one in, but didn't follow through. Now I'm inspired all over again!
Ali took an experiential, but non-traditional approach to a "cooking piece". Instead of "now I am deboning the second of three birds", she pronounces that process gross and gets on the phone!
The language is matter of fact *and descriptive. She draws the listener in...will she make her own...what kind of stuffing will she order???
It's a real and clear delivery that keeps the listener with the narrator through the story...some even ready and waiting to write down that 800 # to phone in their order as well!