this volatile appeared on our table in the Renaissance.
While Alexandre Dumas, in his Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine, published after his death, tells us that the turkey was known to the Greeks and had was imported by Meleager, king of Macedonia , then it was reintroduced into Europe by the ships of Jacques Heart, returning from India in 1432: this source is full of fantasy in the dictionary as often by Alexandre Dumas .
Also fantastic is the story, which gives Turkey the name "Jesuit bird." This assumption - false - lies in the close relationship between the guinea fowl and turkeys.
The "Greeks of Turkey" was in fact a guinea fowl.
Indeed, turkey is a bird authentically American. There are two different species: the common turkey (Meleagris Gallopavus), who haunts the North American Great Plains, and the Ocellated Turkey (Agriechans ocellata), who still lives in the forests of Yucatan and Honduras, which had been domesticated by the Mayas and the Aztecs. This is the only species imported from America to be on our tables. A cock of India or America?
The turkey was first called by the French naturalists cock peacock (because it is also the wheel during his courtship) then cock India (because America was then called the West Indies).
Olivier de Serres, famous agronomist with Sully and Henry IV, called dindart of Indonesian or small (with an apostrophe ). The turkey did not come until much later!
The first appearance of the turkey on a table princely took place in 1570, when the marriage of King Charles IX with Henriette of Austria.
Since then he has gradually on our tables replaced the ancestral or goose, as Joseph said Favre in his Universal Dictionary of Cuisine: "The turkey from that day, took her paw in the black scepter feasts, the goose was in the old Gallic hers since Charlemagne and Caesar. "
Since the world has been divided into "dindinophiles" as Brillat-Savarin, and "dindinophobes.
Grimod of Reyniere not liked the fool-leaves him there, and it is said he was surprised by his father, an inn, now seven beautiful roast turkey : father, farmer-general, asked the man who had ordered these birds and was surprised.
His son replied: "You always told me, sir, that in this volatile, only the fool leaves it there deserves some attention, and his father to concede:" Your practice is somewhat expensive for a young man, but we can not say that it is unreasonable. "
The other song of choice is the hat of a bishop: he is the tail that once the turkey upright, takes the form of a miter which is devoid of a cap edge. Question remains why turkey became the symbol of Christmas.
Joseph Favre tells us that this elite poultry was served for the first time on Christmas Day at the table of King Charles VII, which is patently false. This is probably the size of the poultry that has dictated the table for festive meals, at the instigation of the court of France, which gave the impetus of fashion in gastronomy.
In contrast, Germany and England, the goose has retained the top spot.
In English, said turkey turkey: in fact, the turkey took a detour by the Ottoman Empire and the city of Aleppo, a meeting place for traders and Ottoman Venetian merchants, who had brought the first turkey.
From there, the turkey went to England, hence its Turkish name or turkey.
United States, turkey is a constituent of the traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner in memory of the Pilgrim Fathers, who escaped the famine, when they were established on the coasts of Massachusetts, feeding turkeys and pumpkins .
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