• Turkey is a type of pheasant, and the only poultry native to the western hemisphere.
• The bird on your Turkey Day table is probably going to be a hen. The females are slaughtered starting at about 15 pounds. The males (toms) are allowed grow to 40 pounds and are usually used to produce deli [...]
Something that’s “louche” (LOOSH) - literally French for “cross-eyed” - is of questionable taste or morality.
Example (as used by Liesl Schillinger in The New York Times): “The rebuild [Moscow hotel] is home to the flashy, louche, Western disco Manhattan Express.”
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Remember dressing up as a Pilgrim for your grade school Thanksgiving play? Well, guess what? If your teacher really wanted you to look authentic, she wouldn’t have made you wear that goofy black and white outfit (set off by those ridiculously oversized buckles).
The truth is, those early colonists wore black and white only on Sundays [...]
If you think you’re going to impress the family with that puny 25-pounder you’re planning to serve for Thanksgiving, think again. The world record for the heaviest turkey is 86 pounds. The turkey, named Tyson, was raised in England and auctioned off for charity in 1989 for nearly $7,000.
(Source: Guinness Book of World Records)
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The word “stygian” (STIJE-ee-un), which is sometimes capitalized, comes from Greek mythology - from the river Styx in the underworld. It has, therefore, come to mean hellish, dark and dismal.
Example (as used by Catherine Slessor in The Architectural Review): “The gleaming steel catches the sunlight, casting a play of sparkling reflections and shadows into the [...]
If you’re a fan of pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dessert, say thanks to the pumpkin farmers in central Illinois. They grow about 90 percent of the U.S. pumpkin crop. (In 2007, that crop was worth $117 million to them.) Central Illinois is also where the world’s largest pumpkin processing plant is located. It produces 85 [...]
To be “fey” (FAY) - from the Old English for “fated to die” - is (1) to possess or display a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality, or (2) to appear to be slightly crazy, as if under a spell.
Example (as used by Evan Thomas in The Very Best Man ): “Beneath a fey manner, his [...]
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has been held every year since 1924 (except for a two-year interruption during World War II when the helium and rubber used in the balloons was donated to the war effort).
The first Macy’s parade featured animals from the Central Park Zoo. Inflatable characters came on the scene in [...]
“Ukase” (yoo-KASE) - from the Russian for “command” - is any proclamation by an absolute or arbitrary authority. In imperial Russia, it was an order by the czar that had the force of law.
Example (as used by Don Hauptman today): “An old rule commands that ’since’ be used exclusively for events involving the passage of [...]
As Charlie Byrne and Alexis Siemon (the two other microbrew fans in the office) know all too well, due to a worldwide shortage of hops, prices for craft beers have gone up over the past year.
When prices for hops quintupled (at least), many of our favorite microbrewers had to pass on the increase to consumers. [...]
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