Talking turkey – or not
Nov 11, 2021
3 minutes
As Christmas approaches and the hooks on the beam outside our door are filled with an endless procession of feathered game, it often strikes me that we’ve sold the festive turkey a little short. In its native land, the gobbler is the king of gamebirds, attracting near-evangelical pursuit and spawning not only immense competition in the harvesting but also in the calling. When I found myself in the backwoods of Alabama, turkey-fever was rife and there was not a twizzler in
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