GOBBLE GOBBLE

Or how on earth do you roast a turkey?

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Somehow, I have gotten this far in life, and it is quite the distance, without ever having to roast a turkey for Thanksgiving! How, you ask?

Well, back when I was growing up in India, we just didn’t have turkeys. They aren’t a local species. Peacocks, yes. But they’re our national bird and very protected.

Turkeys… Nope.

How was my American mother to make Thanksgiving special?

An early replacement for turkey—homegrown rabbit!

One answer, was to roast a leg of ham. Not that it was easy to locate. Since both pigs and cows were either sacred or sacrilegious to different members of the community, the only place to find pork or beef was at the Government Meat Depot and had to be ordered well in adva…