<a href="http://www.williamrubel.com/magicoffire/heritage.turkey.html">Slow Food Heritage Turkey - Turkeys for Traditional Cooking</a>: “Historically, turkeys were eaten for much of the year. In the early summer the birds were small. In the fall and early winter the birds were large. Historically, farmers culled their animals in the late fall — including their poultry — because they couldn’t afford to keep large stocks through the winter. Even today, in countries like Lithuania where country people still live off the land, poultry flocks are thinned in the fall. As it happens that Thanksgiving in America, and Christmas in Europe, takes place just when flocks are reduced, the tradition grew up of serving large prize birds at the feast. It is important in thinking about the role of turkey in our modern diet to recognize that historically there was ‘turkey’ and then there was the ‘holiday bird.’”
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